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Mr. Blingham, and may he fry in his own cooking-oil, was assistant treasurer of the Flaver-Saver Company.

Kingsblood Royal -1947.

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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicate to the sayings of Confucius. Such a society functions admirably in the production of cheap automobiles, dollar watches, and safety razors. But it is not satisfied until the entire world also admits that the end and joyous purpose of living is to ride in flivvers, to make advertising-pictures of dollar watches, and in the twilight to sit talking not of love and courage but of the convenience of safety razors.

Main Street - 1920.

Courage, Love, Wisdom, Patriotism

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So debated Doremus, like some hundreds of thousands of other craftsmen, teachers, lawyers, what-not, in some dozens of countries under a dictatorship, who were aware enough to resent the tyranny, conscientious enough not to take its bribes cynically, yet not so abnormally courageous as to go willingly to exile or dungeon or chopping-block - particularly when they "had wives and families to support.'

It Can't Happen Here - 1935.

Courage, Politics, Legal

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The driver of the wagon swaying through forest and swamp of the Ohio wilderness was a ragged girl of fourteen.

Arrowsmith - 1925.

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"Even if some details of dogma aren't true - or even all of 'em - think what a consolation religion and the church are to weak humanity!" "Are they? I wonder! Don't cheerful agnostics, who know they are going to die dead, worry much less than good Baptists, who worry lest their sons and cousins and sweethearts fail to get into the Baptist heaven - or what is even worse, who wonder if they may not have guessed wrong - if God may not be a Catholic, maybe, or a Mormon or Seventh-day Adventist instead of a Baptist, and then they'll go to hell themselves. Consolation? No!"

Elmer Gantry - 1927.

Life, Work

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Like all ardent agnostics, Martin was a religious man.

Arrowsmith - 1925.

Religion

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When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

Politics, Religion, Patriotism

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There had to be one man in town independent enough to sass the banker!

Main Street - 1920.

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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liabilty. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed are the final quarter keep you alive.

It Can't Happen Here - 1935.

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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers - most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

Poetry

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