Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESThree 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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