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Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
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Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.
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One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
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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.
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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
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Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
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The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.
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Life is always either a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
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Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.
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The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
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There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.
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People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
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It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.
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The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.
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One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
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