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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
“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
“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
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