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

Sinclair Lewis

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Down Every Man King Long Look So Someone
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Been Being Contentment Fact Gain Human Large Meditation Not Permanent Recover Upon Yet
It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bounce Custom Fight Find Get Irritation Pack Through Ticket Train Wash
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Around Catch Creep Disobey Done God Much never Try
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!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Believe Brought Christianity Compromise Creator God Merciless Public Scare Servant Truth Whole
Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Escape Scientist Something Writer
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Assertion Being Endure Human Humor Imperlinent Insult Sense
We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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All Cookies Ever May Sick Sicker Too
What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Class Earn Fix Spend
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Die Fresh Generation Immortal Men Necessary Plutocracy Rained Service
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Admit Believe Bust Dearth Eternity Fun Life Loyal More Nice Possible Sometimes
With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Experience Gone Great Heart Honest Income Maybe Money Perhaps Propaganda Tax Union
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Come Country Fascism Flag Hundred Name Percent Wrap
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!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cloud Evening Firmannent Glad God Illuminate Make Marvelous Morning Refulgence Uplift
Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Arrange Country Course Cruelty God Indeed Must Priest System Theology

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