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Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

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Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820 Quotes

“I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.”

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“Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.”

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“The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.”

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“To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.”

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“... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.”

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“It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!”

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