Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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