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.


Comment while on an American tour (March 1842), as quoted in Dickens (1949) by Hesketh Pearson, Ch. 8


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...

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...

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...

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...