Famous quotes containing the words national and/or place:
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)
“The unities, sir, he said, are a completenessa kind of universal dovetailedness with regard to place and timea sort of general oneness, if I may be allowed to use so strong an expression. I take those to be the dramatic unities, so far as I have been enabled to bestow attention upon them, and I have read much upon the subject, and thought much.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
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