661 Quotes by Edith Wharton

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    People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply, by the lives they lead.

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

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    If the proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

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    One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

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