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Quote by Henry James
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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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America
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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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History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. – Jacob Burckhardt

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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. – Benjamin Disraeli

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History

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. – Alfred North Whitehead

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I dont really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that. – Shigeru Miyamoto

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Beauty has a lot to do with character. – Kevyn Aucoin

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Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. – Henry Norris Russell

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Im the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring. – Glenn Beck

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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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