"No man surely has so short a memory as the American."

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"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

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"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."

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"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

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"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."

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"It was part of your religion to hate the British."

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