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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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