More quotes by Edith Wharton
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
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