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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

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – Henry James

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Women
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. – Henry James

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Kindness
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Other Quotes from
History
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey

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History

Natural history is not about producing fables. – David Attenborough

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History

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. – Robert Menzies

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History

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. – Rand Paul

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History

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The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life. – Franz Alexander

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Body

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. – Cecil Beaton

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When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. – Pablo Picasso

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