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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Sinclair Lewis

A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Altogether Aspire Chief Country Ignorance Paint Pure Standardize Succeed Take Victorian Village
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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Assertion Being Endure Human Humor Imperlinent Insult Sense
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Conscious Die Drudging Life More Perhaps Sleep Think Tired
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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All Color Glorious Hue Listen Love Many Out Rainbow Stand
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Being Give High Man Oratory Principle
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
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Excited General Great Men Nation Noblest Most Number Protest Really
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Anything Buy Customer One People
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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Always Business Fine General Large Meaningless Relate Romance Term
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Become Enemy Friend Liability More Quater Reasonable Turn Tyranny Under
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Fellow Good Higher might Power Seem Semon Thing Time Touch
There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Do Done Eager Many People Provide So Them Thing Will World
The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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All Blunder Boy But Could Manage Management Need Nobody School Wisdom World
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
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

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