You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWISWith 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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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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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.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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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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