The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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