"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."

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[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.

— Bertrand Russell