All Edith Wharton Quotes
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
Edith Wharton
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton
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If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
Edith Wharton
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Edith Wharton
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
Edith Wharton
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton
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