It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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 think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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