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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

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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
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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Country Like Love
When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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