It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISGod has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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