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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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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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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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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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