Edith Wharton quote about America from The Age of Innocence - It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
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It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920). copy citation

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Author Edith Wharton
Source The Age of Innocence
Topic America copy originality
Date 1920
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/541/541-h/541-h.htm

Context

“"A convert to what?"
"To all sorts of new and crazy social schemes. But, do you know, they interest me more than the blind conformity to tradition—somebody else's tradition—that I see among our own friends. It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country." She smiled across the table. "Do you suppose Christopher Columbus would have taken all that trouble just to go to the Opera with the Selfridge Merrys?"
Archer changed colour. "And Beaufort—do you say these things to Beaufort?"” source

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