Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
SINCLAIR LEWISEmotionally I know she is better than every other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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