| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 56708 |
| QUOTATION: | The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mark Sullivan (18741952), U.S. journalist, historian. Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925, vol. 3, ch. 9 (1930). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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