It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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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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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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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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