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Men Quotes by Henry James
- England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
- 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 superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
- A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
- You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men.…
- Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to…
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