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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: diff'rent movies any evening you want to name!"
"Sure, and the inspiration we get from rubbing up against high-class hustlers
every day and getting jam full of ginger," said Eddie Swanson.
"Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy.
Fellow's own fault if he doesn't show the initiative to up and beat it to the
city, like we done--did. And, just speaking in confidence among friends,
they're jealous as the devil of a city man. Every time I go up to Catawba I
have to go around apologizing to the fellows I was brought up with because
I've more or less succeeded and they haven't. And if you talk natural to 'em,
way we do here, and show finesse and what you might call a broad point of
view, why, they think you're putting on side. There's my own half-brother
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