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“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way.”
"Amory Blaine" in This Side of Paradise (1920) Bk. 2, Ch. 5
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