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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

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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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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.
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Do Done Eager Many People Provide So Them Thing Will World
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Cure Democracy Evil Fascism Funny Therapeutic
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Much Nothing Revolution Wait
The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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All Blunder Boy But Could Manage Management Need Nobody School Wisdom World
I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Better Country Emotionally Ever Know Other She
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Arrange Country Course Cruelty God Indeed Must Priest System Theology
What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Always Country Dreadful So Travel Why
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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Been Being Contentment Fact Gain Human Large Meditation Not Permanent Recover Upon Yet
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
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Beaten Bizzard Dispute Grow Hatreds Her Labor Make Most Nature Pleasure Politics Race Send Trouble Unnecessary War Warm Wheat
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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