How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American befo…

Edith Wharton
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? ✨ Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). The letters of Edith Wharton, Macmillan Reference USA
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