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Quote by Henry James
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just

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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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. – Henry James

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Experience
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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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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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Tact, Tactfulness
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Henry James
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Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. – John C. Maxwell

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On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it its instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. – Judith Krantz

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alone

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level. – Vladimir Kramnik

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alone

I never knew Id be in a musical, let alone win an award for one. – Nicole Kidman

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This band has never had an argument. Its just amazing. – Dave Edmunds

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It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! – Mark Twain

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Choices are the hinges of destiny. – Edwin Markham

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