Henry James
Henry James
Henry James, OM15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 April 1843
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
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When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
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The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.
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The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
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What could the thing that was to happen to him be, after all, but just this thing that had begun to happen? Her dying, her death, his consequent solitude - that was what he had figured as the beast in the jungle.
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There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
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The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
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The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
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It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.