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Old 01-13-2009, 12:54 PM   #32
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His hostility towards America is very clear in "Chuzzlewit", in which he makes the country out to be little more than a nation of "confidence tricksters".
To be fair, even as of the 2000 census 60% of Americans reported that they earned at least 20% of their income from "thievery, gambling, or confidence trickery." True fact.
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