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Royall Tyler
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“: Believe me, colonel, you have an immense pleasure to come; and when you shall have seen the brilliant exhibitions of Europe, you will learn to despise the amusements of this country as much as I do. : Therefore I do not wish to see them; for I can never esteem that knowledge valuable, which tends to give me a distaste for my native country.”
Royall Tyler (1757–1826) first seen 1790 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Contrast, a Comedy; in Five Acts (Philadelphia: press of Prichard & Hall, 1790), act 4, sc. 1 (p. 59)