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Thomas E. Ricks

“As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “You pays your money and you makes your choice!� That may be the most American sentence ever written.”

― Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
tags: american-history, americans, classicism, u-s-history
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