| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 2729 |
| QUOTATION: | As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it’s a bore. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), U.S. historian. letter, Dec. 17, 1908. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Adams Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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