What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
SINCLAIR LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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