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To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived — to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that — this doubtless is the right way to live.

— Henry James

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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.

The Tragic Muse (1890)

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

Hawthorne (1879)

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

Theatricals: Second Series (1895)

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The Ambassadors (1903)

She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.

The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

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