Edith Wharton Quotes
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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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. If you make up your mind not to be happy there`s no reason why you shouldn`t have a fairly good time.
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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
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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 having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
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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 heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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