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

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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. – Henry James

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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

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The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men” (lecture)

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