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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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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
— Honore de Balzac
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I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this…
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
— Solon
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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.
— John Ratzenberger
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I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching…
— Max Stirner
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