Dude #21 - Returning the Dude

Columbia: Here, Britannia, take this thing.  He is a constant Mortification to me, and an object of contempt with his brothers.  As he is ashamed of his native land and prefers you to his own mother, it is a pity you should not have him.

Britannia: No, no, my dear, I will not deprive you of such a citizen - and that thing at best is b ut a cheap imitation of an atrociously bad article.

 Life, Volume 1, page 163.