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“I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.”

Edith Wharton

Letter to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909), published in The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)

Pain , Marriage

“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”

Edith Wharton

"The Other Two," ch. 1, from The Descent of Man and Other Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/tdmos10.txt (1904)

“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

Edith Wharton
Personality , Life , Wisdom , Parting