The USA & Australia - 'snippets', 1854 style Just to cheer you all up, a couple of quotes from 1854: "A young lady, a native of Sydney, being asked if she should like to go to Britain, answered that she should like to see it, but not to live in it. On being pressed for her reason, she replied that, from the great number of bad people sent out from thence it must be a very wicked place to live in!" "Nearly all the suicides in this country are by foreigners. Yankees rarely make away with themselves; for nearly every one thinks he has a chance of becoming President, and at any rate, his curiosity prompts him to live on, just to see what he WILL come to!"