It was the tragic part of happiness; one's right was always… - Henry James

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It was the tragic part of happiness; one's right was always made of the wrong of some one else.

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Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

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