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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

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Banks / Banking
Author
Edith Wharton
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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

Category:
Age
Author
Edith Wharton
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

Some pursue happiness, others create it. – Author Unknown

Category:
Happiness

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. – Daniel Kahneman

Category:
Happiness

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. – John Stuart Mill

Category:
Happiness

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. – William H. Seward

Category:
Happiness

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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. – Arthur Miller

Category:
Knowledge

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Category:
Poetry

Were not going to baby sit a civil war. – Barack Obama

Category:
War

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion. – Samuel Gompers

Category:
Morning