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Quote by Edith Wharton
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good t

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

Other quotes by Edith Wharton

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. – Edith Wharton

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Butterflies
Author
Edith Wharton
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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. – Edith Wharton

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Art
Author
Edith Wharton
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when youre a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately its gone. – Andrea Corr

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Happiness

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Category:
Happiness

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. – Olympia Brown

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Happiness

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. – Marcus Aurelius

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Happiness

Random Quotes

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Reform, Correction

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Envy / Jealousy

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Science

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. – Thomas Paine

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good