“He heard them whispering—whispering… The independence seeped out of him and he walked the streets alone, afraid of men's cynical eyes and the incessant hiss of whispering.”

—  Sinclair Lewis , book Babbitt

Babbitt (1922), Ch. 32

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American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885–1951

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