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Literary Trivia

This morning, a friend posted a quote from Henry James (“ Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”), but said she had never been able to verify its source. Being the obnoxious so-called know-it-all* I am, I felt obligated to point out that the quote is not found in James’ wr…