Edith Wharton

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Set wide the window. Let me drink the day

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time

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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time

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Each time you happen to me all over again

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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