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Certain Quotes by Henry James
- Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- 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…
- People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You…
- The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its…
- The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half…
- She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
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