His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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