I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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