Justine Chang

“I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous; contracting ourselves into a nutshell of civility, or dilating into an atmosphere  of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to  let you make his shoes, or his hat, or his coat, or his carriage, or  import his groceries for him; making yourselves sick, that you may lay  up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old  chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the  brick bank; no matter where, no matter how much or how little.”

“I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous; contracting ourselves into a nutshell of civility, or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to let you make his shoes, or his hat, or his coat, or his carriage, or import his groceries for him; making yourselves sick, that you may lay up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the brick bank; no matter where, no matter how much or how little.”

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