Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"Right you are. The only trouble is that you, both of you, are
fifty years behind the times. You're old American. How you ever
got here in the thick of modern conditions is a miracle. You're
Rip Van Winkles. Who ever heard, in these degenerate times, of a
young man and woman of the city putting their blankets on their
backs and starting out in search of land? Why, it's the old
Argonaut spirit. You're as like as peas in a pod to those who
yoked their oxen and held west to the lands beyond the sunset.
I'll wager your fathers and mothers, or grandfathers and
grandmothers, were that very stock."

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