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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

Sinclair Lewis

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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Adult Children Death Everything Kill Play Preparation Ridden Rule Spirit Time
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 Service Theology Theory Upon Worst
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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Basketball Bbbit Call Clan Custom Game Gave Homicidal Instinct Outlet Patriotism Side
When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Come Country Fascism Flag Wrap
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Dog My Sleep With
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Anyone Arrwe Bore Dead Else Long People Power Writer
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Cost Fact Humidity Initial Prohibition Thing Whole
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Industry Mmiddlevest North Season Writer
My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Actual Church Cruel Hypocritical Objective Peacher Some Them Through Wick
With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Experience Gone Great Heart Honest Income Maybe Money Perhaps Propaganda Tax Union
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Come Country Fascism Flag Hundred Name Percent Wrap
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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Business Deck Hand Information Inspire Steamer Tramp Travel Wise World
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Altogether Aspire Chief Country Ignorance Paint Pure Standardize Succeed Take Victorian Village
Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Dictate Method Pen Secret Type Use Work Writing
if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Army Being Business Commuter Human Leader Men Officer Plumber Rotary Salesmen Salvation Travel Wearers

Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

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