“Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.”

—  Henry James

"Venice," The Century Magazine, vol. XXV (November 1882), reprinted in Portraits of Places (1883) and later in Italian Hours http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8ihou10.txt (1909), ch. I: Venice, pt. II.

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American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916

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