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 LEWISOne quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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