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For the worst sign of all--as I must have it for you-- is that you can't help me. That's when a woman pities.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Sixth, Chapter 2
I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 2
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
"There are certainly moments," said Chad, "when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true," he added, "that seems to be all that need concern me.": Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Eleventh, Chapter 1
Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2
She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2
Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 3
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
Deep experience is never peaceful.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)

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