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

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.

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.

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...

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There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony...

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is...

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is...

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.

Summer afternoon...Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon...Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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

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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated...

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

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

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

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

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

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Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what...

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....

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

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

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

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