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There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
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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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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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