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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

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Sinclair Lewis
Journalist
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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You, Said Dr. Yavitch, are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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