Henry James Quote

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.


Washington Square (1881), ch. XIV.


Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the...

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the...

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the...

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the...