It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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