The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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