I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.

Edith Wharton
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  1. Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

  2. Knowing the truth is not always a kindness. - Rosamund Hodge

  3. The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing. - Swami Vivekananda

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  5. This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness. - Dalai Lama Xiv

More Quotes By Edith Wharton
  1. Each time you happen to me all over again.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

  5. To know when to be generous and when firm–that is wisdom.

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