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“In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a3e77db020e80eeffcdb8440a3efa5959eeee8954e1bfaad35d8466051a7f497
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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