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

— Henry James The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

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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)

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?

The Ambassadors (1903)

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