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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

Category:
Tact, Tactfulness
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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

Category:
Art
Author
Henry James
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Other Quotes from
History
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History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it. – Rick Warren

Category:
History

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clans bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. – Camille Paglia

Category:
History

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

Category:
History

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. – John Podhoretz

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History

Random Quotes

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. – Max Beerbohm

Category:
Failure

Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. Its like a rush, I really enjoy that. – Sebastian Vettel

Category:
car

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell

Category:
Complaining

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market. – Pauline Hanson

Category:
Health