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Edith Wharton

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

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