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Results of search for Author: Henry James - Page 1 of 4 Showing results 1 to 10 of 31 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
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Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "Ambassadors", 1903
There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 3
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
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 are in a conspiracy to under-value them.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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