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Things Quotes by Edith Wharton
- Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That…
- Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
- One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
- Some things are best mended by a break.
- Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.
- Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.
- She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way…
- It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.
- Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one…
- The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging…
- Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to…
- And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...
- She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
- One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
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