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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Adequate Agreeable Cheerful Country Difficult Easy Exempt Justify Magnificent Reproach Speak
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Capital Computer Feel Italic Knowledge Think
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Life Man Novel Object Represent
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Bleed Butchery Corpse Necessary Perform
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Always Delicate Generous Prize Pursue
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.
HENRY JAMES

Disappoint Ever Every Firm Mine Rock Stand Trust Yours
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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Efficiency Feel Like Set Success Wait Work
If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Emotion Feel Love Overrated Respect
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Appreciate Appropriate Criticize Intellectual Possession Take
I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Everyone Less Like Myself People Think Want
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMES

Bad Karma Man Manner Moral Pretend Really Understand Women
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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Actual Deep Dig Doubt Forever Life Out Something Taken Wait Without
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Help Humanity More Nothing Respect Shadow
Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMES

Close Detail Make Pulse Rhythm Selection Short Story Succinct Tremendous Very
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Add Being Kept Only Something Tradition
You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Conventioanl Ground Mill

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