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Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
Novelist
Poet
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New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.
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Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.
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But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.
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Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.
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Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.
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Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.
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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.
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We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!
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Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.
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