Edith Wharton

More from Edith Wharton

• No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

  The House of Mirth (1905), ch. X, pg. 69In context

  • Pride

• Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

  “Xingu” (1911), from Xingu and Other Stories (1916)

  • Clever Jabs

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I

  • Art
  • Ideas

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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