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“When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.”

Edith Wharton

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“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.”

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“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself…

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“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the…

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“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it”

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“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.”

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“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.”

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“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together…

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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

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With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material…

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Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never…

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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were…

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