"My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go."

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Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

— Henry David Thoreau