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Them Quotes by Henry James
- Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
- One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at…
- I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up…
- It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
- I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality…
- 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,…
- A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
- It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the…
- I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel
- 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…
- Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
- There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without…
- Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,…
- He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to…
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
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