We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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 is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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