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Edith Wharton Quotes: An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
         

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.


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The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.



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One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.



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



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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!



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Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.



One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.




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