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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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