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Which Quotes by Henry James
- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- Life is a predicament which precedes death.
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it…
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