The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWIS
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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