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.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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