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Quotes by Henry James
- I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
- 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.
- Ideas are, in truth, force.
- In art economy is always beauty.
- 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.
- It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
- It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
- It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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