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“rash as the Americans usually are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.” Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
“we never succeeded in deflecting the Americans from their purpose. Their national psychology is such that the bigger the Idea the more whole-heartedly and obstinately do they throw themselves into making it a success. It is an admirable...” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.” Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter, but he never felt the law.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“I’m a bit retarded, like most Americans.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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