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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis
Journalist
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! 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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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