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The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
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
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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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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
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In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
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Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.
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She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
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Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.
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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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In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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