"Three millions yearly for manure, But not one cent for literature."

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Humorists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesPeople from Iowa
Original Language: English

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Motto for Iowa, his native state. Quoted in Johan J. Smertenko, "Iowa—A Mortgaged Eldorado", The Nation, vol. 115, no. 2,997 (December 13, 1922) p. 660. Also quoted in Upton Sinclair, The Goose-Step (1923) ch. 68, p. 337