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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.

Sinclair Lewis

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
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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Altogether Aspire Chief Country Ignorance Paint Pure Standardize Succeed Take Victorian Village
As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Admit Believe Bust Dearth Eternity Fun Life Loyal More Nice Possible Sometimes
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Important Living Most Part Ponder Upon
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.
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Being Blue Country Human Literature Palin Professor Something True University
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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Being Give High Man Oratory Principle
There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Always Compliment Cruel Degree Fact Greater Jew Measure Regime Scientific Sillness Unpouplarity
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Advertise Cheapest Economic Factor Good Particular Sell Valuable Worthless
People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Emotion Fiction Information People Read
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Agonizingly Chie Dull Nine Ninty Objection Percent School Sermon Sunday
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
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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Energy Fact Fond Full Must Oratory Room Very
There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Do Done Eager Many People Provide So Them Thing Will World
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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Ago Art Decline Election Institute Letter National Price Protest Some Year
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Apart Furious Hundred Interest Light Maker Personal Star Thousand Universe Year

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