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• I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.

  Edith Wharton

  People, Worry, Wonder

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.637, Delphi Classics

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• ... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.

  Edith Wharton

  Pain, Joy, Suffering

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• I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

  Edith Wharton

  Worry, Sacred, Married

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Gods Arrive”, p.278, Edith Wharton

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• For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

  Edith Wharton

  Strong, Blood, Years

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2054, Delphi Classics

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• One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

  Edith Wharton

  Style, Care, Littles

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910”, p.174, Library of America

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• ... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

  Edith Wharton

  Worship, Spine, Strain

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.5433, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Edith Wharton

  Winter, Night, Light

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.97, Booklassic

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• And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

  Edith Wharton

  Mother, Exercise, Aunt

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1906, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Edith Wharton

  Vanity, Self, Missing

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The House of Mirth”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Spring, Years

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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.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Fearless, Ignorant

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4026, Delphi Classics

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• Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

  Edith Wharton

  Motherhood, Self, Charity

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1841, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, Eye, Numbers

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances.
  'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Glasses, People

  "The Age of Innocence".

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• I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Ems, Dull

  Edith Wharton, Marion Mainwaring (1994). “The Buccaneers”, p.115, Penguin

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• We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

  Edith Wharton

  Hurt, Wanted

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2162, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Edith Wharton

  Moving, Archer, Butterfly

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2116, Delphi Classics

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• Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

  Edith Wharton

  Expression, United States, Lost

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2688, Delphi Classics

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• The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Order, Essence

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4504, Delphi Classics

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• ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

  Edith Wharton

  Intuition, Amusement, Want

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, Dream, Sky

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.641, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Edith Wharton

  Exercise, Errands, Destruction

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Tales of Men and Ghosts: American Literature”, p.141, VM eBooks

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• Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

  Edith Wharton

  Flower, Unattainable, Firsts

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2108, Delphi Classics

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• Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Pairs, Episodes

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• Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

  Edith Wharton

  Lying, People, Firsts

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