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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 quality of mercy is not strained
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Dora appeared, placing Alex's coffee in front of him."Your girlfriend is a wonder, honey,"she siad to him, squeezing willows shoulder. Willow's smile…
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To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a…
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I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was…
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved…
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