Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
SINCLAIR LEWISThus 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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