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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.

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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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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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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.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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….”
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