Set This House on Fire, William Styron

It is with neither pride nor distress that I confess that ñ in the idiom of our time ñ I am something of a square. By profession I am a lawyer. I am ambitious enough to wish to succeed at my trade, but I am no go-getter, and, being constitutionally unable to scrabble and connive, I suspect that I shall remain at that decent, mediocre level of attainment common to all my ancestors, on both branches of the tree.
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