Quote by Edith Wharton
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of

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

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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. – Edith Wharton

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Banks / Banking
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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. – Edith Wharton

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Friendship
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. – Edith Wharton

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Age
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Art

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Art

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Art

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. – Robert Hughes

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Art

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them its all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth. – Brett Favre

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Architecture aims at Eternity. – Christopher Wren

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