It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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