I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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