It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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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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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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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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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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