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.
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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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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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