Quote #1
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
More from Henry James
- Everything about Florence seems to be coloured with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
- 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 secre…
- It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
- Deep experience is never peaceful.
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- It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, un…
- Whatever question there may be of his [Thoreau's] talent, there can be none, I think, of his genius. It was a slim and crooked one; but it …