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Excellence does not require perfection.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it set to work and you will feel like it.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
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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 least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.
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do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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 in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
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She is written in a foreign tongue.
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No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!
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He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
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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 belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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