Quote by Alice James
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. – Alice James

Other quotes by Alice James

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. – Alice James

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Medical
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How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness. – Alice James

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respect
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. – Alice James

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Failure
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. – E. M. Forster

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