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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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" Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" In art economy is always beauty. "

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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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" Ideas are, in truth, force. "

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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. "

" In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. "

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" An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue. "