American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels
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