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My first few weeks in America ...

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!

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The essence of taste is suitab...

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 287 quotes

Society soon grows used to any...

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

I don't believe in God, but I ...

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

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Think what stupid things the p...

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

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Some things are best mended by...

Some things are best mended by a break.

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Life is the saddest thing ther...

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

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They seemed to come suddenly u...

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

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She threw back her head with a...

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

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One of the great things about ...

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

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Apart from the pleasure of loo...

Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

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He had her in his arms, her fa...

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

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She wanted, passionately and p...

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

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Half the trouble in life is ca...

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

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Little as she was addicted to ...

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

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Everything about her was warm ...

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

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[I]t's safer to be fond of dan...

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

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Any rapidly enacted episode. ....

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

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The visible world is a daily m...

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

I was a failure in Boston...be...

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

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