Edith Wharton Quotes.

11. "Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair."
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12. "Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."
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13. "Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions."
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14. "It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region."
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15. "An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
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16. "A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
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17. "They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything."
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18. "To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom."
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19. "...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins."
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20. "I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone."
- Quote by Edith Wharton