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Those who make their home in one place follow the norm; those who live itinerantly do not. If those in the first and by much the larger group have the advantage of stability and the reputation of respectability, those in the second and smaller group gain a kind of autonomy. Among the first are the bourgeois and the professional; among the second, the gypsy and, until lately, the Mongolian and the medieval friar and the Indian sadhu.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 383