Rec | HENRY JAMES'S GREATEST SENTENCE

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After his first meeting with the talented and charming but apparently quite homely authoress George Eliot, he wrote: "Behold me, literally in love with this great horse-faced bluestocking!"

@dean_incognito

May 8, 2024

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