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Thinking 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…
- It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you…
- Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art.…
- It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
- Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage…
- I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.
- My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified…
- Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.
- The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.
- There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart…
- 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…
- Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She…
- What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from…
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