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QUOTATION:The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
ATTRIBUTION:Edith Wharton (1862–1937), U.S. author; relocated to France. As quoted in Edith Wharton, ch. 9, by R. W. B. Lewis (1985).

In a letter written to her friend Sara Norton in the early 1900s.
 
 
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