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[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

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
Safer
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People

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