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..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
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I have lived too long in foreign parts
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God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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