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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

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The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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