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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

Sinclair Lewis

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.
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Discontent Facilities Happy Learn Make Most Other Tarin Trouble Work
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
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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Century Civilization Country Dedicate Impossible Inspiration Itself Salesman Suire Traveling Wisdom
I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Believe Brought Christianity Compromise Creator God Merciless Public Scare Servant Truth Whole
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Achievement Citizen Come Dozen Each Easy Except Half Ignorance Proud Town
So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Being Contrive Four Greatest Hour Human Manner Mystery Praise Put Reaction Sex Twenty
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Always Fiction Funny Much Need Opera Praise Pray Shoemaker Singer So Strive War Well World
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
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Class Earn Fix Spend
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
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Barbarian Century Class Middle Prisoner Twentieth
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Excited General Great Men Nation Noblest Most Number Protest Really
The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Demand Disconnecting Hatred Intelligent Love More One Thing

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

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