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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#easy #i #interesting #know #life

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#cases #different #each #generally #had

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#author #being #enough #good #i

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

— Edith Wharton

#counselor #does #experience #life #moral

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#easy #had #hardening #her #instead

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#apparently #doing #duty #else #unfitted

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? ↗

— Edith Wharton

#face #life #living #look #worth

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#making #mysteries #nose #only #out

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#ask #half #letter #long #more