Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. ✨ Ed…

Edith Wharton
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Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence, p.210, Simon and Schuster
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And all the while, I suppose, he thought, real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them. ✨ Edith Wharton (2015). Age of Innocence, p.58, Oxford University Press
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Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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