Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
HENRY JAMESInstead 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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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