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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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