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

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."

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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

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"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."

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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."

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"I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees."

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"Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth."

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

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"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North."

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