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Quotations By Edith Wharton


Art
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Being
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Experience
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.