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" I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. "
Henry James
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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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" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "
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" The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. "
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" An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. "
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" Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. "
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" The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. "
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" I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. "
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" If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. "
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" Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. "
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" There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. "
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" Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? "
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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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" Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. "
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" People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. "
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" Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. "
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" Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. "
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" The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. "
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