On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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