“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there ar…”

“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.”

— Charles Dickens

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Comment while on an American tour (March 1842), as quoted in Dickens (1949) by Hesketh Pearson, Ch. 8

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Dickens, Charles. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Charles Dickens. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

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