“It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.”

—  Alexis De Tocqueville, book Democracy in America

Book Three, Chapter IX.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

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