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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

Sinclair Lewis

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Church Element Ponder Rarely Respectable Service Theology Theory Upon Worst
Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Cloud Evening Firmannent Glad God Illuminate Make Marvelous Morning Refulgence Uplift
The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Demand Disconnecting Hatred Intelligent Love More One Thing
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Audience Author Come Funnier Hope Largely Lecture Raed See
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Dealt Fortune Generosity Known Many Much Poverty Rather Struggle Well
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Critical Given Gossip Protect Sensitiveness Unhappy Women
It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Dam Discourage Go Impossible Real Say Writer
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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Afraid Alive Bless Die Kill Leep One Quater Speak
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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Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Always Country Dreadful So Travel Why
Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Certainty City Country Largest Modern One Pair Pleasentest
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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Admit Believe Bust Dearth Eternity Fun Life Loyal More Nice Possible Sometimes
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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Bounce Custom Fight Find Get Irritation Pack Through Ticket Train Wash
We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Already Go Hand Made Plan Thousand Utpoi Want Wiser Year
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Cost Fact Humidity Initial Prohibition Thing Whole

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