He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
Henry James
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..if I dont do something on the grand scale it is that my genius is altogether imitative and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
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To take what there is in life and use it without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that this doubtless is the right way to live.
- Henry James