The American's conversation is much like his courtship ... He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction if the weather looks fair he inkles a little more. Wishing neither to intrude nor be intrude...
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.
Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsew...
After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.
And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod - Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be fini...
A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.
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