Author Topic: ~ Edith Wharton Quotes ~  (Read 1295 times)

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~ Edith Wharton Quotes ~
« on: May 28, 2014, 09:16:35 AM »
Edith Wharton Quotes


A Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
Edith Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.

Here are some famous quotes by Edith Wharton.




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

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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2014, 09:16:57 AM »
Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

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« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2014, 09:17:20 AM »
In any really good subject one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

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« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2014, 09:17:44 AM »
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2014, 09:18:07 AM »
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

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« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2014, 09:18:31 AM »
Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

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« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2014, 09:18:56 AM »
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self.