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“There is that glorious epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men: "Good Americans when they die go to Paris."”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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