"It's not that he "bites off more than he can chaw," as T. G. Appleton said of Nathan, but he chaws more than he bites off."
— Henry James

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Clover Adams, letter to her father (December 1881), in The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, ed. Ward Thoron (1936)