"It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country."
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The Age of Innocence
by
Edith Wharton
"American slang is very expressive sometimes."
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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Americans are so charming, that we really must not mind their money."
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The Rosary
by
Florence L. Barclay
"In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man."
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Babbitt
by
Sinclair Lewis
Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.
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Moby Dick
by
Herman Melville
"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.
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Little Women
by
Louisa May Alcott