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Henry James has 200 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American…
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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed…
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas…
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...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every…
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the…
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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…
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The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
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God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors,…
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament;…
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I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.
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If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but…
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Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear,…
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