Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"That's right, too," Billy acknowledged the hit. "If they had
better heads they'd be in the cities like all the rest of the
better men. An' the better men are a lot of dummies, too. They
don't know the big chances in the country, or you couldn't hold
'm from it."


Billy dismounted, took the three bars down, led his horse
through, then put up the bars.


"When I get this place, there'll be a gate here," he announced.
"Pay for itself in no time. It's the thousan' an' one little
things like this that count up big when you put 'm together." He
sighed contentedly. "I never used to think about such things, but
when we shook Oakland I began to wise up. It was them San Leandro
Porchugeeze that gave me my first eye-opener. I'd been asleep,
before that."

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