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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
Source: Hawthorne, ch. 6 (1879).
-- Henry James, Jr, (Apr 15 1843-1916), English author; He was a master of the psychological novel and innocents abroad motifs, e.g., The Portrait of a Lady, 1881.