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«It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.»
«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.»
Author: Henry James
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aesthetic, alien, autumn, brushes, dusky, Everything is Beautiful, solitary, wing
«New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire»
Author: Henry James
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appall, appalled, appalling, appalls, dire, direr, direst, elaborately, fantastically, New York, York
«Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.»
«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 are in a conspiracy to under-value them»
Author: Henry James
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America and Americans
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addict, addicted, addicts, American values, conscious, conspiracies, conspiracy, indisputable, self-conscious
«She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.»
«To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.»
«What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?»
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
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abbey, absent, American Army, American elder, American Life, American literature, aristocracies, aristocracy, ascot, castles, cathedrals, churches, church school, clergy, cottages, country house, court, diplomatic, diplomatic service, drawn, Eton, gentlemen, Great Court, Great Houses, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, houses, ivied, list, loyalty, museums, Norman, novels, old country, Old Court, old school, oxford, palaces, public schools, ruins, schools, sovereign, sporting, thatch, thatched, thatching, The Harrow, universities
«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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