# Quote — Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in America

> Connecticut, the Land of Steady Habits, where clocks, granite, and schoolteachers were its chief exports, and the specter of Puritanism still stalked every crevice of its rocky hills.

- Author: [Debby Applegate](https://www.leafyquotes.com/debby-applegate.md)
- Book: [The Most Famous Man in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/debby-applegate/the-most-famous-man-in-america.md)
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> Connecticut Yankees were a wily, peculiar breed, according to early American folklore, with a slippery shrewdness that could confound even Satan himself.

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