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The one bill that was always defeated. The Bill? One to get lights on horse-drawn vehicles. The objection? Farmers couldn't afford twenty-five cents for a red disk.


Edith Rogers

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EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Las...
EDITH CAVELL