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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Be Happy Good Good Time Happy Only Pretty Pretty Good Stop Time Trying

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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Always Bed Feather Give Give Me Life Me Tightrope

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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

Topics: Break Easy Had Her Instead Less Lily Made Misfortune Pliable Stiff Substance Supple Than

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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

Topics: Age Breadth Broad Calm Death Delicious Flowing Free Freedom Haughty Old Old Age Universe

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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: After Critics Invent Knows Others Overlook Points Rather Them Weak Well

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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

Topics: Care Easy Interesting Know Life Made Man Should Someone Want Who

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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Bit Cases Different Different Story Each Each Time Generally Had Happens People Story Time Various

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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

Topics: Adapted Author Being Enough Good Known Never Novel Political Political Views Spite Views

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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

Topics: Able Face Life Living Look Worth Worth Living

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: About Deal Great Great Deal Money Only Think Way

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 24th, 1862

Died: August 11th, 1937

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