“A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.” IfsWorldFirstsHumansCountryHardStatesAbleFeltUnitedRaceTeachUnited StatesDoubtEffectsProduceCitizensUnderstoodHuman RaceArroganceDryDevotedPatriotStubbornPersuasionSingle Word Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume
“It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.” PeopleIfsShouldSeemsCitiesFairsShould HaveCommodityQuarrelsHogStaplesNot Pretty Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).” IfsAmericaYoungClassYouthConversationHeavySillyDullFoolishnessPrivilegedYoung Ladies Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
