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    “The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.”
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    “A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
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    “Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one’s equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.”
    —Georges, French novelist, critic. L’Abbé C, pt. 2, ch. 17 (1950)