Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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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’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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