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Life is the only real counsel...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

I don't know that I should ca...

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The desire for symmetry, for ...

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

But I have sometimes thought ...

But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The other producer of old age...

The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

I begin to see what marriage ...

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

An unalterable and unquestion...

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The real marriage of true min...

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Life is made up of compromise...

Life is made up of compromises.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Once more it was borne in on ...

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 287 quotes

There is one friend in the li...

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, the very meaning of one's soul.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Life is the saddest thing the...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Half the trouble in life is c...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

It is almost as stupid to let...

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

If only we'd stop trying to b...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The visible world is a daily ...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Only the fact that we are una...

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

She wondered if, when human s...

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The visible world is a daily ...

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

There are lots of ways of bei...

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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