"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"

Friendship, America, Friends, Saying, Skepticism

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"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"

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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

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"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

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"A friend to all is a friend to none."

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"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."

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