He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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