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Frances Milton Trollope
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“Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steamboat.”
Frances Milton Trollope (1780–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sometimes think, sir, that your fences might be in more thorough repair, and your roads in better order, if less time was spent in politics.”
Frances Milton Trollope (1780–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.”
Frances Milton Trollope (1780–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.”
Frances Milton Trollope (1780–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source