American Nonrequired Reading

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“... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, nor her brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.”
—Frances Trollope (1780–1863)

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)