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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

Other quotes by Henry James

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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alone
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Henry James
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The only success worth ones powder was success in the line of ones idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? – Henry James

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Success
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Other Quotes from
History
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The 80s were fabulous. The 90s sucked, and the 70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! Theres something thats just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and Im a loner. – Jennifer Sky

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History

Historians are themselves products of history. – Paul K. Conkin and Roland N. Stromberg, Heritage and Challenge

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History

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. – African Proverb

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History

History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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History

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. – Francis Bacon

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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. – Henry David Thoreau

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How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that theyre somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? – Dan Savage

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Happiness
[T]he true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life… – William Morris, “The Aims of Art,” 1887

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