It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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