In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fau — Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fau — Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fau — Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fau — Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fau — Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
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In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fault, that I was born in a country which was not congenial to my desires. -1815, in a letter to her father William Patterson

— Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
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