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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. "
Henry James
Over
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Man
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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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" 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. "
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" We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. "
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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? "
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" The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. "
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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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" 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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" 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 a great deal of history to produce a little literature. "
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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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" There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. "
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" One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. "
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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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" An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. "
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" Ideas are, in truth, force. "
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" There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. "
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" In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. "
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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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" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "
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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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