The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. (Eric Hoffer)

The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Eric Hoffer

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