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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

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Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

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The civilized instinct finds a subtler pleasure in making use of its antagonist than in confounding him.

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She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

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It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

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The making of the substance called character was a process about as slow and arduous as the building of the Pyramids; and the thing itself, like those awful edifices, was mainly useful to lodge one's descendants in, after they too were dust.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton
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Born: January 24, 1862
Died: August 11, 1937 (aged 75)
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