Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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In 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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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