Lewis H Lapham :
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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Contemplation
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Suspicion
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Temperament
Gift it
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