I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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