Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWISThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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