“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.”
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
Edith Wharton 
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
Edith Wharton
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