The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESExcellence does not require perfection.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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