Fine Quote by Sinclair Lewis

“Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.”

Sinclair Lewis

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“She found beauty in the children.”

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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

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“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying…

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“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists…

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“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.…

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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

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“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to…

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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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“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”

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“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,”

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