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Quote by Henry James
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complicati

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if youre nice to the second housemaid. – Henry James

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alone
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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

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Exile
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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

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America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples. – Aurora Raigne

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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

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America is a mistake, a giant mistake. – Sigmund Freud

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins. – Jerome Cady

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Family, nature and health all go together. – Olivia Newton-John

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just dont know, but they do. – Earl Warren

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