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• One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

  Edith Wharton

  Beautiful, Art, Firsts

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.6879, Delphi Classics

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• I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, Intelligent, Boston

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• Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

  Edith Wharton

  Mad, House

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Collected Works of Edith Wharton”, p.3355, e-artnow sro

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• She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

  Edith Wharton

  Joy, Solitude, Taste

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Butterfly, Winter

  Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

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

  Edith Wharton

  Money, Thinking, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

  Edith Wharton

  Facts, Wells, Knows

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Touchstone: American Literature”, p.66, VM eBooks

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• He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

  Edith Wharton

  Flower, Sunrise, Arms

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1992, Delphi Classics

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• Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

  Edith Wharton

  May

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2005, Delphi Classics

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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

  Substance, Literature, Lilies

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.33, VM eBooks

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• Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

  Edith Wharton

  Mean, Ideas, Illusion

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.64, VM eBooks

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• I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Wings, Feels

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Reef: American Literature”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

  Edith Wharton

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• She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Soul, Vision, Trying

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

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• She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

  Edith Wharton

  Tolerance, Mirth, Scene

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.32, Xist Publishing

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• ...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

  Edith Wharton

  Clever, Liars, Giving

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.239, Booklassic

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• In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Arbitrary, Done

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.39, Booklassic

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• The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

  Edith Wharton

  Memories, Eye, Fire

  Edith Wharton (1990). “Novellas and Other Writings”, Library of America

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• Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Breaths

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2061, Delphi Classics

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• I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

  Edith Wharton

  Lovers, Incorrigible, Adventurer

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• ... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

  Edith Wharton

  Routine, Caprice

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

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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

  Happiness, Alive, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

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• Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

  Edith Wharton

  Doe, Too Much

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2933, Delphi Classics

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• Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

  Edith Wharton

  Upset, Tea, Inanimate Objects

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.172, Edith Wharton

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• Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Freedom, Thinking

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