God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWISFunny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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 can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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