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Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862.
* She was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
* Her work often explored the social and cultural mores of the upper class.
* She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
* She was also a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
* She died in France in 1937.
* Her most famous works include The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome.
* She is considered one of the most important American writers of the 20th century.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

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Love

Edith Wharton

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

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Love

Edith Wharton

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

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Happiness

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

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Humor

Edith Wharton

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.

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Love

Edith Wharton

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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Happiness

Edith Wharton

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