“ Why should we let anybody do anything better than we can? ”
Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (1925). copy citation
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
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| Source | Arrowsmith |
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| Date | 1925 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200131h.html |
Context
“Darling, except for Clara, maybe, they're nothing but rich bookkeepers! But we're real soldiers of fortune. Your France that you love so much—some day we'll go there, and the French President will be at the N.P. depot to meet us! Why should we let anybody do anything better than we can? Technique!"
They talked for an hour in that drab place, between the poisonous lines of barbed wire.
Next day, when Orchid came into his laboratory and begged, with the wistfulness of youth, "Oh, Dr.”
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