My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. (Cleveland Abbe)

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Cleveland Abbe

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