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  • I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

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  • Henry Ford Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Henry Winkler A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
    Henry Winkler
    American actor, comedian and director
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Ford A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
    News Journal (3 August 1965)
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • O. Henry You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • David Henry Thoreau Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Allen It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Henry Ford A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Being is the great explainer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Henry David Thoreau City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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