Quote#Wisdom
Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American…
Quote byFrances Trollope · 1780–1863
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), ch. 2.
English (original)
Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi steamboat.
— Frances Trollope
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