The Pearl Of Wisdom

Relative to most men, I have visited very many different places in my life already and, generally, I have had the impression that I would be happier living in most of those places than I have been in America. I do not mean by this to say that I wish I had been born and raised in those places, though; for I think I could not have arisen under any other circumstances. Indeed, what is most precious to me in my character, my philosophy I mean, has grown in me as a pearl grows in a clam — as an attempt to rid oneself of an irritant.

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