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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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