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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradit

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. – Henry James

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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James

Category:
Imagination
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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

Category:
Tact, Tactfulness
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Henry James
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History
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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I cant stop to count it. – Evita Peron

Category:
History

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. – Conrad Hall

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History

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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History

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. – Henry A. Kissinger

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History

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Know thyself, still the best antidote to a sense of moral superiority. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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