"Let us instance one respect in which American……" — Frank Crowninshield
"Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness."
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Frank Crowninshield
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7 Quotes by Frank Crowninshield
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Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
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For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects...…
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What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
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I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because…
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