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Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt · 1922

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 25.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 25.

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