My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just … - Thomas Steinbeck

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The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.

Thomas Steinbeck

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

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