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Quotation from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
“he had been the man of his time, _the_ man, to whom nothing on earth was to have happened”
The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter VI (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093))
The recognition at the grave: Marcher's singular fate was to be the one man to whom nothing happened.
Citation: "he had been the man of his time, _the_ man, to whom nothing on earth was to have happened" — Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter VI (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093)). (id henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle-q9)
