However British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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