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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Candle Light Mirror Reflects Spreading Two Ways

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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Dog Feet Heartbeat Little

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Consists Manner New Originality True Vision

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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Beware Deadly Monotony Mother Sins

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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Air Breathing Ideas Only Worth

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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: May Silence Speech

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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 is to remain alive.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Against Alive Fought Habit Habits Having Incessantly Must Necessary Remain Rut Trail Turning

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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Above Daily Destiny Easily Imagination Level Lives Long Man Moments Rises Subdued Suddenly Surveys

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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Deal Had He Lifetime Memories Once Packed Regrets Stifled

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Become Counselor Does Experience Life Moral Only Part Personal Personal Experience Real Through Tissue Wisdom

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 24th, 1862

Died: August 11th, 1937

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