“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.
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