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  • Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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    Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. - Herman Melville
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