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It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.
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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Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
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They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
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What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
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... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.
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In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.
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The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
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He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.
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She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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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.
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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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Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
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He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.
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Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.
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...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
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She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
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