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Edith Wharton was a 19th-century American writer and designer. Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
— Edith Wharton
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“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
— Edith Wharton
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“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
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“The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.”
— Edith Wharton
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“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but theres 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 theres no reason...”
— Edith Wharton
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“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always helped me. ”
— Edith Wharton
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