"Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
— Henry James

January 1, 1970

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Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10

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Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10