The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may be The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea.
To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetryand tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.
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