William Maxwell, Ancestors: A Family History
"At that period, rising in the world meant giving up working with your hands in favor of work in a store or an office. The people who lived in town had made it, and turned their backs socially on those who had not but were still growing corn and wheat out there in the country. What seemed like an impassable gulf was only the prejudice of a single generation, which refused to remember its own not very remote past."
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"At that period, rising in the world meant giving up working with your hands in favor of work in a store or an office. The people who lived in town had made it, and turned their backs socially on those who had not but were still growing corn and wheat out there in the country. What seemed like an impassable gulf was only the prejudice of a single generation, which refused to remember its own not very remote past."
"في تلك الحقبة، كان الارتقاء في الحياة يعني التخلي عن العمل اليدوي لصالح العمل في متجر أو مكتب. وقد اعتبر أهل المدينة أنفسهم قد بلغوا المنال، وأداروا ظهورهم اجتماعيًا لمن لم يحققوا ذلك بعد، وظلوا يزرعون الذرة والقمح في الريف. وما بدا كهاوية سحيقة لا يمكن عبورها، لم يكن سوى تحيز جيل واحد، رفض أن يتذكر ماضيه القريب جدًا."
William Maxwell, Ancestors: A Family History
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