| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30535 |
| QUOTATION: | What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William James (1842–1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. Letter, July 2, 1908. The Letters of William James, vol. 2 (1920). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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