The delightful Edith Wharton ( 1862-1937 )
" There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. "
Edith Wharton
" If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. "
Edith Wharton
" Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. "
Edith Wharton
" The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. "
Edith Wharton
" Her failure was a useful preliminary to success. "
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the country.
" A woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself. "
Edith Wharton
" The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches. "
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
" Beauty ( was ) a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings. "
Edith Wharton, The Age Of Innocence
" ...and once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas..."
Edith Wharton, The Age Of Innocence
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