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• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  Edith Wharton

  Duty, Worst

  The Age of Innocence ch. 34 (1920)

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• The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

  Edith Wharton

  Love, Crush, Eye

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• I can't love you unless I give you up.

  Edith Wharton

  Love You, Giving, I Can

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, Booklassic

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• Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Believe, Pudding

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• To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

  Edith Wharton

  Morocco, Shapes, Lines

  Edith Wharton (2004). “In Morocco”, p.16, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

  Edith Wharton

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Mistake, Women

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

  Edith Wharton

  Marriage, Pain, Ties

  "The letters of Edith Wharton".

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• In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

  Edith Wharton

  Divorce, Able, Sentimental

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

  Edith Wharton

  Vanity, Weight, Nests

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.112, Xist Publishing

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• Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

  Edith Wharton

  Reflection, Self, House

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2044, Delphi Classics

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

  Edith Wharton

  Memories, Regret, Lifetime

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2192, Delphi Classics

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• As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Long, House

  Edith Wharton (2006). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, OUP Oxford

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• It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Men, Easy

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.285, VM eBooks

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• He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.

  Edith Wharton

  Loneliness, Winter, Profound

  Ethan Frome preface (1911)

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• He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

  Edith Wharton

  Passion, Bones, Feds

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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• My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Class, America

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• “Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary — she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.”

  Edith Wharton

  Blessed, Eye, People

  "Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics".

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• ...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  Edith Wharton

  Mother, Sin, Monotony

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Selected Works: Edith Wharton's Selected Works - The House of Mirth, Summer, The Age of Innocence, The Fruit of the Tree, Ethan Frome, The Touchstone”, p.188, Lulu Press, Inc

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• And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, People, Happenings

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Age of Innocence”, p.58, Oxford University Press

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• In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, New York, New Yorkers

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1665, Delphi Classics

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• Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

  Edith Wharton

  Culture, Band, Dangerous

  Xingu and Other Stories "Xingu" (1916)

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• What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

  Edith Wharton

  People, Ems, Use

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2113, Delphi Classics

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

  Edith Wharton

  People, Dangerous

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.47, Booklassic

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• The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

  Edith Wharton

  Mind, Literature, Landscape

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