It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do…

John Steinbeck
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It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat. ✨ John Steinbeck (2007). Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962
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