A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Quote by Edith Wharton

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

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

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

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

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

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I...

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I...

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in...

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in...

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a...

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a...

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of...

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of...

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have...

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have...

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of...

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of...

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of...

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of...

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite...

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite...

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

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

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who...

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who...

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than...

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than...

The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not...

The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not...