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I sometimes think, sir, that your fences might be in more thorough repair, and your roads in better order, if less time was spent in politics.

— Frances Milton Trollope Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)

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Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steamboat.

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Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.

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The character of the American literature is, generally speaking, pretty justly appreciated in Europe. The immense exhalation of periodical trash, which penetrates into every cot and corner of the country, and which is greedily sucked in by all ranks, is unquestionably one cause of its inferiority.

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