Henry James Quotes on Society
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In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
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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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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 undervalue them.
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Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!
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You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!
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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.