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The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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