“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
Voltaire
“In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses”
Calvin Trillin
“France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country”
Mark Twain
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.”
“We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.”
“There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages”
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