Quote#World
Men who had made five thousand, year before last, and ten thousand…
Quote bySinclair Lewis · 1885–1951
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Babbitt (1922).
English (original)
Men who had made five thousand, year before last, and ten thousand last year, were urging on nerve-yelping bodies and parched brains so that they might make twenty thousand this year; and the men who had broken down immediately after making their twenty thousand dollars were hustling to catch trains, to hustle through the vacations which the hustling doctors had ordered. ~ Ch. 12
— Sinclair Lewis
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