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NOVELISTS > novelist, dramatist > Charles Dickens
I am quite...
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Source: Comment, Mar 1842, while on an American tour. In Hesketh Pearson, Dickens, ch. 8, 1949.
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7 1812-1870), English novelist, dramatist; He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., A Christmas Carol, 1843 & Tale of Two Cities, 1859.