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Way 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…
- There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.
- One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
- Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
- 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…
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- 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 was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing…
- He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and…
- 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…
- 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…
- To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse…
- There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness.…
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