• Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

  Edward Hoagland
  American Novelist, Essayist 1932-
  

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1. manifestations
2. cleverness
3. themselves
4. manner
5. leery

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Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness. by : Edward Hoagland

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