Quote by Henry James
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always b

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

Other quotes by Henry James

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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America
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. – Henry James

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Summer
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[W]oods are filled with the music of birds, and all nature is laughing under the glorious influence of Summer. – Charles Lanman, “The Dying Year,” 1840

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Summer

If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh

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Summer

One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. – Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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Summer

Hey! It’s summer! Be free and happy and danceful and uninhibited and now-y! – Terri Guillemets

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Summer

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the former. – Albert Einstein

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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. Thats a gift that you have received from God. Dont waste it. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

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