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- Chilled
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I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
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There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
- People
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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 of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
- Face
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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
- May
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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.
- Determination
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
- High
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
- Certain Point
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
- Life
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
- Ideas
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
- Man
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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.
- Judge
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
- Important
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