“Martin knew nothing about America, or he would have known perfectly well that if its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always
is depressed, and always
is stagnated, and always
is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.”
― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1842)
