Century American Individualist

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“The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination.... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)