"There is nothing less to our credit than……" — Charles Horton Cooley
"There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him."
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61 Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
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