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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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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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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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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Edith Wharton

New York, Divorce, Literature

Edith Wharton (2011). “The New York Stories of Edith Wharton”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Edith Wharton

Darkness, Sunrise, Harder

Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.145, VM eBooks

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We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

Edith Wharton

Soul, Acres, March

Edith Wharton (2016). “The Touchstone: American Literature”, p.36, VM eBooks

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How I hate everything!

Edith Wharton

Hate, I Hate

Edith Wharton (2006). “Summer”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

Edith Wharton

Loneliness, Sky, Light

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Edith Wharton

Dramatic, Significance, Acquire

Edith Wharton, Janet Beer (2002). “The House of Mirth”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton

Love, Dog, Animal

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The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

Edith Wharton

Spring, Winter, Shining

Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

Edith Wharton

Mistress, Expensive

"Old New York".

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Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

Edith Wharton

Memories, Life And Love, Certain

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Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Edith Wharton

Society, Used, States

Edith Wharton (2008). “Old New York”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

Edith Wharton

Together, Get Together

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1960, Delphi Classics

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They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

Edith Wharton

Opportunity, Thinking, Remembers Everything

Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.70, VM eBooks

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I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Edith Wharton

Noses, Red, Cry

Edith Wharton (2008). “The House of Mirth (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.379, ReadHowYouWant.com

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She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Edith Wharton

Butterfly, Kissing, Arms

Edith Wharton, Barbara Anne White (1995). “Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome”, p.152, UPNE

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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Edith Wharton

Solitude, Littles, Noise

Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

Edith Wharton

Smile, Light, Vivid

Edith Wharton (2015). “Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910”, p.377, Library of America

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there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

Edith Wharton

Writing, Letters, Way

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

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As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

Edith Wharton

Pain, Healing, Compassion

Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.134, VM eBooks

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Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Edith Wharton

Thinking, Sea, Literature

"The Age of Innocence".

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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

Looks, Able, Faces

Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.328, Courier Corporation

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Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Edith Wharton

Women, Hair, Doe

Edith Wharton (2007). “Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction”, p.14, Bantam Classics

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Born: January 24, 1862
Died: August 11, 1937
Occupation: Novelist
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