A Quote by Van Wyck Brooks

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

Van Wyck Brooks

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Quote Author

Van Wyck Brooks
American - Critic
February 16, 1886 - May 2, 1963

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