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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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" 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. "

" It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. "

" 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. "

" I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. "

" It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. "

" Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. "

" It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. "

" What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? "

" Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. "

" To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. "

" The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. "

" I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. "

" The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. "

" 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? "

" In art economy is always beauty. "

" Deep experience is never peaceful. "

" 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. "

" It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. "

" The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. "

" A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. "

" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "

" There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. "

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" However British you may be, I am more British still. "