Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day....

Edith Wharton
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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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