“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them.”

—  Henry James , book Hawthorne

Hawthorne, ch. VI: England and Italy.

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