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– that America Disaster is often disaster with no
isn’t what it greater purpose.
once was, that its
prosperity was Perhaps then, it’s not the advice
built upon the he gives with words so much
shared principles as his life that speaks to me, his
of honesty and youngest grandchild. To live a
hard work, and life free from the frantic pursuit
that the more of wealth and fame, to commit
recent consensus to a place and people no matter
of what counts how insignificant they may seem,
as a good life is to devote oneself to the mastery
illegible to him. of one’s work and to the care of
He reluctantly one’s home and family – there
suggests that really seems to me no better life
some minds, nearly synonymous perhaps some great shared to be lived.
with the town itself. Even at 93, adversity might give the country
he goes into work every single a common purpose again. But
day.
hard times have indeed beset
His speech is textured with the America since the more famous
common sense of his generation ones of last century’s first half.

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