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    “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
    —Seventeenth-century English proverb, collected in Outlandish Proverbs, George Herbert (1640)

    “And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
    They can tell you, being dead: the communication
    Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.”
    —Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)