America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in …

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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1969). The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde, p.7, University of Chicago Press
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