That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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