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.
HENRY JAMESUnder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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