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Book Quotes by Henry James
- To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a…
- The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word…
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