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Henry James

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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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"Venice," The Century Magazine, vol. XXV (November 1882), reprinted in Portraits of Places (1883) and later in Italian Hours (1909), ch. I: Venice, pt. II

 
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