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Other Quotes by Edith Wharton
- How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and…
- The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
- She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.
- It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
- There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart…
- The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
- I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in…
- But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes…
- With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and…
- As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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