Sunday, July 29, 2007
Mea Culpa
Alexis de Tocqueville, a French visitor to the U.S., wrote in 1830's:
"An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on; he will plant a garden and rent it just as the trees are coming into bearing ... he will take up a profession and leave it, settle in one place and soon go off elsewhere. ... In the end, death steps in and stops him before he has grown tired of this futile pursuit of happiness, which always escapes him."
# posted by goots @ 11:31 AM 
