It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. -Alice James

 

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Alice James quotes in our collection. Alice James is known for saying 'It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.' as well as some of the following quotes.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Alice James
274

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James
228
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! -Alice James
194

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Alice James
169

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Alice James
143
How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. -Alice James
131

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Alice James
130