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.

Quote by Henry James

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

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

We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have,...

We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have,...

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

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

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no...

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no...

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what...

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what...

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second...

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second...

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

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

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

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

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

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I...

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I...

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no...

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no...

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

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

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort....

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort....

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which...

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which...

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of...

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of...

You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea,...

You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea,...

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all...

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all...