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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

~Henry James

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

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In art economy is always beauty.

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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

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However British you may be, I am more British still.

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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 15th, 1843

Died: February 28th, 1916

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