Edith Wharton
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Life is either always a tight-rope or a feather bed. Give me the tight-rope.
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It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
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She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
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There is no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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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 are beautiful.
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Most wrong-doing works, on the whole, less mischief than its useless confession.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
[The House of Mirth]
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallup.
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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