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Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or air:

“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)

“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)

“... in this air of withering sweetness ...”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)