The things we admire in men, kindness, generosity, openness, honesty, and understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 135)
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