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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

Other quotes by Henry James

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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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

Category:
alone
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Henry James
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Other Quotes from
History
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Natural history is not about producing fables. – David Attenborough

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History

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes

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History

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. – David Thelen

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History

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins

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History

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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. – Ramsey Clark

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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. – W. H. Auden

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Authors & Writing

Few minds wear out; more rust out. – Christian N. Bovee

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If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Sir James Mackintosh used to say, he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quantity of coffee he drank. – Sydney Smith, quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith: Volume I by his d

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