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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the…

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The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost…

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I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in…

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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of…

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From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects,…

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Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us…

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized…

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The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history,…

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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and…

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be…

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Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we…

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty,…

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There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls:…

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The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,…

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Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision,…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

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