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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

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

Category:
Banks / Banking
Author
Edith Wharton
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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. – Edith Wharton

Category:
Experience
Author
Edith Wharton
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Happiness

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. – Author Unknown

Category:
Happiness

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Happiness

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. – Pierre Corneille

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

Youve got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win. – Terry Bradshaw

Category:
Time

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered. – Walter Rudolf Hess

Category:
positive

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people whove never made any money in business. – Gary Vaynerchuk

Category:
Money

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I cant help but cry. I mean Id love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff. – Mariah Carey

Category:
Death