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 (1843-1916) American writer
Hawthorne, ch. 6 “England and Italy” (1879)


 
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