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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
Time
Pretty
Trying
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
Edith Wharton
May
Silence
Speech
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
Time
People
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
Vision
Originality
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.
Edith Wharton
Imagination
Destiny
Man
Moments
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton
Duty
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton
Money
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton
American
Mind
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton
Ideas
Worth
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
Edith Wharton
People
Want