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Quote by Henry James
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists i

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

Other quotes by Henry James

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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Henry James
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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

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Art
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Civilization
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. – Syrus

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. – Elbert Hubbard

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Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

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