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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James

Yourself, Mind, Judge

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James

Life, Important, Human

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
Henry James

Interested, Liked

Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James

Experience, Deep, Peaceful

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James

Life, Beauty, Art

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Henry James

Money, Meet, Follow

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James

Work, Art, Passion

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James

Experience, Complete, Finest

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James

Life, Few, Afternoon

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

Life, Reason, Existence

However British you may be, I am more British still.
Henry James

May, However, British

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James

History, Takes, Tradition

Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James

Truth, Ideas, Force

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James

Great, Woman, Opinion

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James

Character, Incident

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Henry James

Age, Single, Regret

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James

Women, Bad, Him

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

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

Beautiful, Words, Two

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
Henry James

Life, Live, America

Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James

Life, Death, Precedes

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James

Life, Few, Afternoon

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 under value them.
Henry James

Fact, Earth, Value

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Henry James

Fine, Appreciate, Criticize

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Henry James

Natural, Tongue, Holding

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 15, 1843

Died: February 28, 1916

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