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... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.
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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Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.
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She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.
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And all the while, I suppose, he thought, real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.
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I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy I should want some one who made it interesting.
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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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It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now
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Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.
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I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.
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People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
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It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
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I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.
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It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
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Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
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Each time you happen to me all over again.
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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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Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.
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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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