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But at the metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness. I felt lonely in New York, and I felt the same loneliness in others - poor young clerks who worked non-stop to earn their living, wasting the most beautiful time of youth and life.
In my younger years my father gave me some advice that stuck in my mind.
“Whenever you want to criticize anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you have had.”
He did not say anything more, but I understood that he meant something more than that.