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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”

Sinclair Lewis

So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Being Contrive Four Greatest Hour Human Manner Mystery Praise Put Reaction Sex Twenty
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Careful Damm Executive Great Measure Men Merriment Run Shop Smile
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Dealt Fortune Generosity Known Many Much Poverty Rather Struggle Well
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Been Being Contentment Fact Gain Human Large Meditation Not Permanent Recover Upon Yet
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Detail Dis Mind never Quit Reves She Throughness Understand Work
I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Energy Fact Fond Full Must Oratory Room Very
To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Artistic Dubious Highbrow Intellectual Lord Own Priggish Virtue
Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Escape Scientist Something Writer
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Do Done Eager Many People Provide So Them Thing Will World
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Industry Mmiddlevest North Season Writer
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bible Dicate Explain Hire Minister Perfect Race Since
To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Country Devil Live People Person Soul
The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Aware Behind Cocktail Desire Devastatimng Exhilaration Fill Whirling
An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bondage Business Church Doctrine Down Lot Millionaire Much Too

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