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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

Sinclair Lewis

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Assertion Being Endure Human Humor Imperlinent Insult Sense
In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Adult Children Death Everything Kill Play Preparation Ridden Rule Spirit Time
We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Always Conscious Deferring Generation Hope Life More Next Perhaps Think Tired Want
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
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Class Earn Fix Spend
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
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Aching Anything Car Start Tedium Window Worse
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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All Color Glorious Hue Listen Love Many Out Rainbow Stand
What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Die Fresh Generation Immortal Men Necessary Plutocracy Rained Service
When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Come Country Fascism Flag Wrap
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
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
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

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