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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Sinclair Lewis

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Anything Buy Customer One People
His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Afford Call Country House More Name Nimble Pay People Person Sell
You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Earn Essential Immortal Morality Must Think Underneath
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Church Element Ponder Rarely Respectable Service Theology Theory Upon Worst
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Critical Given Gossip Protect Sensitiveness Unhappy Women
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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Basketball Bbbit Call Clan Custom Game Gave Homicidal Instinct Outlet Patriotism Side
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
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
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Occupation Season Winter
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
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Faith Reverence True
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
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
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
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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Fellow Good Higher might Power Seem Semon Thing Time Touch

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