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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Safe Sterile Upon Writer
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Better Criticize Custom Love Much Think Yourself
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Any Belive Error Living Need Religion Seem Think Worth
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Astonishingly Complicated Easy Great Hard Life Make No One Reform
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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Discontent Facilities Happy Learn Make Most Other Tarin Trouble Work
It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Board Country High Make Mind Mountain Myth Necessary One Our Favorite Plain Purpose
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Cathedral Little One Seem Something Spent Time
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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.
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