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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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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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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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