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Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.
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I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
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Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
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Art without life is a poor affair.
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Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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