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Quote by Henry James
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agree

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – 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
Author
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
Coffee (or Tea)
category

Or to some coffee-house I stray,
For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp – Matthew Green

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. – Dave Barry

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. – Samuel Johnson

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Coffee (or Tea)

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Category:
Prophecy

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Perspective

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. – Charlie Chaplin

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The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldnt tell a joke to save my life. – Seann William Scott

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