I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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