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Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

- Sinclair Lewis

Age, May, Still, Sage

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

- Sinclair Lewis

Hundred, Half, Spent, Ten Times

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

- Sinclair Lewis

Damn, Measured, Executives, Merriment

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

- Sinclair Lewis

Compulsion, Polite, Obedient, Sterile

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

- Sinclair Lewis

Nature, Winter, Occupation, Season

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

- Sinclair Lewis

Way, Particularly, Goods, Factor

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

- Sinclair Lewis

Funnier, Come, Read, Authors

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

- Sinclair Lewis

Middle, Century, Barbarian, Middle Class

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

- Sinclair Lewis

Love, Romantic, Star, Evening

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

- Sinclair Lewis

Business, Will, Buy, Customer

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

- Sinclair Lewis

Literature, Like, Very, Professors

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

- Sinclair Lewis

Patriotism, Country, Other, Emotionally

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

- Sinclair Lewis

Will, Human Being, No Sense, Trouble

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

- Sinclair Lewis

Bad, Very, Form, Courage

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