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Show ? Count Tolstoi is lamenting the growia of vicious teudeucies in society and inbred in-bred sin in all countries. He was asked i by an interviewer the other day what p7 peoplft become t he most abnormal in this respect. He replied: - "At any rate, not the Americans. To " their credit must be put the immense national na-tional self love, which cannot exist in an abnormal people. I one day wrote an article on America and the Americans, In which I did not particularly overload the latter with flattery. Nevertheless I " sent the manuscript over the ocean, thinking it would be accepted by any paper as eagerly as my other productions. produc-tions. Not a bit of it. The translator took it to 14 editors without getting it accepted, and finally it had to be 6ent to Eucland." |