Edith Wharton Quotes - Page 11

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• I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.

  Edith Wharton

  Wine, Knowing, Drunk

  Edith Wharton (1998). “Beyond the Age of Innocence”

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• I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

  Edith Wharton

  Exercise, Errands, Destruction

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Tales of Men and Ghosts: American Literature”, p.141, VM eBooks

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• Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

  Edith Wharton

  Flower, Unattainable, Firsts

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2108, Delphi Classics

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• Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

  Edith Wharton

  Expression, United States, Lost

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2688, Delphi Classics

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