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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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