Stella Benson Quote

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him.... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.


Pipers and a dancer (ed. 1924)


Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him.... Americans...

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him.... Americans...

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him.... Americans...

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him.... Americans...