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Edith Wharton: There are two...

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There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Source: Artemis to Actaeon, 1909.
-- Edith Wharton, (Jan 24 1862-1937), US novelist, short-story writer; She wrote about upper-class New York society in Ethan Frome, 1911 and The Age of Innocence, 1920.


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