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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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