Latin American Country

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    “He tries by a peculiar speech to speak
    The peculiar potency of the general,
    To compound the imagination’s Latin with
    The lingua franca et jocundissima.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “A steady patriot of the world alone,
    The friend of every country but his own.”
    —George Canning (1770–1827)