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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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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 tasting.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.
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I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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