He wanted to honor Shad for the sweaty shirt, the honest toil, and all the rugged virtues, but even as a Liberal American Humanitarian, Doremus found it hard always to keep up the Longfellow's-Village-Blacksmith-cum-Marx attitude consistently and not sometimes backslide into a belief that there must be crooks and swine among the toilers as, notoriously, there were so shockingly many among persons with more than $3500 a year.
( Sinclair Lewis )
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