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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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 one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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One can't judge till one's forty before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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