"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."

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"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."

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"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"

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