I wonder, among all the tangles of this

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	"I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie." - -- Edith wharton

Top 5 quotes from Edith wharton

"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."
"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."

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