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Life is a predicament which precedes death. - Henry James

Life is a predicament which precedes death. – Henry James

Other quotes by Henry James

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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America
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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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Summer
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Death
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon

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Death

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply cant build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. – Anne Frank

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Death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Death

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. – Mark Twain

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Death

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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. – Ernest Hemingway

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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. – Patrick Henry

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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. – Andrew Jackson

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