America

A year's residence, in the United States of America by William Cobbett (1819):

It is supposed in England that this equality of estimation must beget a general coarseness and rudeness of behaviour Never was there a greater mistake No man likes to be treated with disrespect and when he finds that he can obtain respect only by treating others with respect he will use that only means When he finds that neither haughtiness nor wealth will bring him a civil word he becomes civil himself and I repeat it again and again this is a country of universal civility.

The boasting of wealth and the endeavouring to disguise poverty these two acts so painful to contemplate are almost total strangers in this country for no man can gain adulation or respect by his wealth and no man dreads the effects of poverty because no man sees any dreadful effects arising from poverty.

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