I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.

Sinclair Lewis

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Funny 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.
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Much Opera Shoemaker Singer So Strive Well
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Excited General Noblest Most Number Really
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 Theology Upon
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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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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Fine General Large Meaningless Relate Term
An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.

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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Bondage Church Doctrine Down Lot Millionaire Much Too
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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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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Advertise Cheapest Economic Factor Particular Sell Valuable Worthless
Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.

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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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Dictate Just No Pen Toe Type Use Write Writeing
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Can Dark Hing Lighten One Really Say
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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Curing Give Heard Malaria Patient Syphill
I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Drink Exactly Now
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,

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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Bible Dicate Explain Hire Minister Perfect Race Since
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Any Belive Living Seem Think
I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.

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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Fond Full Must Oratory Very
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Anything One
In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Everything Ridden
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.

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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Know Other

I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.

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