I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESThe 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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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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