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Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.

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

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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

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I have lived too long in foreign parts

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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

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In art economy is always beauty.

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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

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We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

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