# The Awkward Age

- Author: [Henry James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-awkward-age

## Quotes

> People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

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> Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

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> I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies—in great towns and great crowds. It is a plant that takes times and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash," as we elegantly call it—an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.

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