There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
From Henry James
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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 of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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?
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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