Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state. - Ambrose

Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state. – Ambrose Bierce

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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. – Ambrose Bierce

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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce

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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. – Ambrose Bierce

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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to Americanize him. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut — a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul. – Anzia Yezierska

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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. – Hal Borland

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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. – James Baldwin

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