Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine whic
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Chinese were born ... with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplan
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I don't measure America by its achievement, but by its potential.
We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface le
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.
The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sens
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It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest soci
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...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero
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Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will brea
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