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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.

Sinclair Lewis

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Beebm Accomplish Convenience Critical Everything Free Important Preservation Social Spirit System While World Worth
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Better Criticize Custom Love Much Think Yourself
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Class Earn Fix Spend
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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Any Belive Error Living Need Religion Seem Think Worth
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Cathedral Little One Seem Something Spent Time
Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Dictate Method Pen Secret Type Use Work Writing
An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Bondage Business Church Doctrine Down Lot Millionaire Much Too
But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Barbarism Capable Forever Men Ritual Science Shut Silence
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
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Back Country Dream Far Found Herself Main Snatch Street
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Cannot Dodge Fact Now
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Achievement Citizen Come Dozen Each Easy Except Half Ignorance Proud Town
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Country Many People Say Trouble
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Aaraom Anxious Being Believe Do Except might Mind Perhaps Satan
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Admit Believe Bust Dearth Eternity Fun Life Loyal More Nice Possible Sometimes

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