“Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”

—  Henry James , book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.

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American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916

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