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• Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out to have been a phenomenon, not a civilization.
  -- Shirley Hazzard, "Transit of Venu...
• Kilt, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• The difference between America and England is, the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time.
• America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. -- Oscar Wilde
• Americans] are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
  -- Samuel Johnson America is a large friendly dog in a small room....
• A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.
  -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) "America and Americans" (1966)...
• America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America".
  -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac...