The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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