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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
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Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), U.S. historian. letter, Dec. 17, 1908.
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