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 JAMESSummer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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