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Brief about Edith Wharton: By info that we know Edith Wharton was born at 1970-01-01. And also Edith Wharton is American Author.

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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Tags: Against, Alive, Necessary

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Tags: Daily, Destiny, Lives

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Tags: Inspirational, Light, Mirror

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Tags: Good, Happy, Time

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Tags: Deadly, Mother, Sins

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Tags: Dog, Feet, Heartbeat

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Tags: Bed, Give, Life

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Tags: Air, Ideas, Worth

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Tags: After, Others, Rather

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Tags: Care, Life, Someone

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Tags: Manner, True, Vision

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Tags: Happens, Story, Time

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Tags: Experience, Life, Wisdom

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Tags: Ask, Half, Time

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Tags: Deep, Enough, Good

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Tags: May, Silence, Speech

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Tags: Divorce, Virtue, York

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Tags: Another, Art, Done

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Tags: Memories, Once, Regrets

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.

Tags: Enough, Good, Political
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