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Great Quotes by Henry James
- We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
- It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can…
- ...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit…
- No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,…
- The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves…
- It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
- The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
- Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
- She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart…
- 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…
- ...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
- Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to…
- Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is…
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