"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
-Edith Wharton
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
-Edith Wharton
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"Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
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"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."
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"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
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"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
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"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
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