Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMES
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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