The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the … - Henry James

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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Henry James

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern. . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

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