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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Achievement Citizen Come Dozen Each Easy Except Half Ignorance Proud Town
I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Curing Give Heard Malaria Patient Syphill
Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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Dictate Just No Pen Secret Toe Type Use Work Write Writeing
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
But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Barbarism Capable Forever Men Ritual Science Shut Silence
I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Country Like Love
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Excited General Great Men Nation Noblest Most Number Protest Really
We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Always Conscious Deferring Generation Hope Life More Next Perhaps Think Tired Want
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!
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Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Cloud Evening Firmannent Glad God Illuminate Make Marvelous Morning Refulgence Uplift
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Safe Upon Writer
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
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Aware Behind Cocktail Desire Devastatimng Exhilaration Fill Whirling
Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Aron Arrest Case Country Fourteen Girl Many Murderer Orphanage People Seduce Sell Stock Thin Year
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Cost Fact Humidity Initial Prohibition Thing Whole

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