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Edith Wharton

"Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?"

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"Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?"

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"Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as society; so that, as you see, my library represents a makeshift compromise between looks and brains, and the collectors look down on me almost as much as the students."
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"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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"Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."
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"A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature."
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