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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.

Sinclair Lewis

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
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Always Fiction Funny Much Need Opera Praise Pray Shoemaker Singer So Strive War Well World
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Come Country Fascism Flag Hundred Name Percent Wrap
The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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All Blunder Boy But Could Manage Management Need Nobody School Wisdom World
I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Complaint Conceivable Country General Have Industrialism Literature Make Myself Stand Yet
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.
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Do Done Eager Many People Provide So Them Thing Will World
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Anyone Arrwe Bore Dead Else Long People Power Writer
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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Brown Change Content Event Object Pocket Sensational Suit Warn
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Barbarian Century Class Middle Prisoner Twentieth
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
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Critical Given Gossip Protect Sensitiveness Unhappy Women
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
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Die Fresh Generation Immortal Men Necessary Plutocracy Rained Service
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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Been Being Contentment Fact Gain Human Large Meditation Not Permanent Recover Upon Yet
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
When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Come Country Fascism Flag Wrap

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