• Virtues

  Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  4.0 · 27 votes · 62 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  4.7 · 47 votes · 18 reads

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• Art and Culture

  He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

  3.6 · 60 votes · 75 reads

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• Society

  I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

  3.0 · 63 votes · 163 reads

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• Virtues

  I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

  3.8 · 39 votes · 38 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  3.3 · 44 votes · 120 reads

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• Society

  I think patriotism is like charity - it begins at home.

  4.7 · 57 votes · 129 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Ideas are, in truth, force.

  4.0 · 33 votes · 120 reads

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• Countries

  It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

  4.6 · 33 votes · 98 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  3.5 · 50 votes · 98 reads

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• Nature

  Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

  3.4 · 32 votes · 41 reads

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• Society

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

  3.0 · 13 votes · 63 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

  4.1 · 42 votes · 74 reads

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• Society

  One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

  3.1 · 56 votes · 116 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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 you're nice to the second housemaid.

  3.8 · 5 votes · 40 reads

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• Various

  She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

  4.6 · 39 votes · 133 reads

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• Time

  Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

  4.8 · 9 votes · 36 reads

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• Countries

  The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than else

  4.0 · 47 votes · 90 reads

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• Various

  The fatal futility of Fact.

  3.7 · 26 votes · 63 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

  3.7 · 12 votes · 119 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

  3.5 · 38 votes · 113 reads

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• Virtues

  The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it -this cl

  3.5 · 21 votes · 166 reads

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• Nature

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

  4.9 · 32 votes · 113 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

  4.7 · 56 votes · 33 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  4.2 · 10 votes · 182 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  3.5 · 49 votes · 156 reads

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• Art and Culture

  To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

  4.4 · 27 votes · 86 reads

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• Virtues

  What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

  3.6 · 41 votes · 70 reads

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