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“ The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use, but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life. ”

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Each time you happen to me all over again.

~ Edith Wharton

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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

~ Edith Wharton

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Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always helped me.

~ Edith Wharton

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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.

~ Edith Wharton

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