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Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)

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The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace, which is delicious in autumn, is most tormenting in the spring.

Frances Trollope

Frances Trollope (1780–1863), British author. Domestic Manners of the Americans, ch. 14 (1832).

Trollope was residing temporarily in America when she wrote this.

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