People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. -Henry James

 

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.


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This quote is just one of 33 total Henry James quotes in our collection. Henry James is known for saying 'People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.' as well as some of the following quotes.

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

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Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't.

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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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