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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.

Sinclair Lewis

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Drink Exactly Now Revolution Want
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Being Give High Man Oratory Principle
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Bible Dicate Explain Hire Minister Perfect Race Since
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!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Democracy Dignity Ever Exception Give Ordinary Scandalous Whole Worker
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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Brown Change Content Event Object Pocket Sensational Suit Warn
To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Artistic Dubious Highbrow Intellectual Lord Own Priggish Virtue
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Back Country Dream Far Found Herself Main Snatch Street
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
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Divine Doom Grace Hell Most Rose Think When
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Cannot Dodge Fact Now
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Always Fiction Funny Much Need Opera Praise Pray Shoemaker Singer So Strive War Well World
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
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Being Blue Country Human Literature Palin Professor Something True University
Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Cloud Evening Firmannent Glad God Illuminate Make Marvelous Morning Refulgence Uplift

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