Edith Wharton

Puzzles

• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of ___, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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• If only we’d stop trying to be ___, we’d have a pretty good time.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Edith Wharton?

  • → Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
  • → There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
  • → I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
  • → Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Edith Wharton.

  • → The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
  • → Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you are forced to.
  • → Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
  • → Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Edith Wharton.

  • → People will forget the things you do, and people will forget the things you say. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
  • → I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
  • → Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
  • → When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
  
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