Edith Wharton Quotes
It was the old New York way of taking life 'without effusion of blood': the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren’t human, but they were people, she told herself; it’s not them, they’re us.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
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It was the old New York way of taking life 'without effusion of blood': the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
