It is very hard to raise boys to love and respect virtue and learning when the tools of success are chicanery, treachery, self-interest, laziness and cynicism or when charity is deductible, the courts venal, the highest public official placid, vain, slothful and illiterate.
 John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (1961). copy citation

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Author John Steinbeck
Source The Winter of Our Discontent
Topic laziness cynicism
Date 1961
Language English
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