| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |  |
| "Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet." | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |  |
| The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his--attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park. | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |  |
| To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |  |
| "Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself." | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |  |
| "You wanted to look at life for yourself--but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!" | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |  |
| "I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination." | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |  |