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No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. – H.L. Mencken

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. – H.G. Wells

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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. – Arnold Toynbee

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We cannot reform the world…. Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. – John F. Kennedy

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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