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

Quote by Edith Wharton

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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret...

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret...

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

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

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...

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...

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

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...

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to...

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to...

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...

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,...

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes,...

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes,...

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

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 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...

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

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

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...

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into...

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into...

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...

Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary...

Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary...

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going...

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going...