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There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.

— Edith Wharton A Backward Glance (1934)

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

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

The Writing of Fiction (1925)

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

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