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In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.
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It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
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..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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