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

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Sinclair Lewis
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Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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