Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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