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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
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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.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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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?"Ambassadors", 1903
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There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort."The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 3
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Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught."The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.from his essay about the rules of writing
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