Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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