James Silk Buckingham - The slave States of America (1842)

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The passion of love is not felt with the same intensity by either sex in this country as even in France; still less so than in England, and with nothing approaching the ardour with which this passion burns in Portugal, in Spain, in Italy.

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In the small towns of the country, however, we found the hospitality of the residents all that we could desire, and more than we could enjoy.

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