There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESUnder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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