I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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