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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lewis H. Lapham

We squander the truth of our inheritance if we don't know how or why it was accumulated, against what odds, with what force of the human imagination and which powers of expression.

Lewis H. Lapham

Most American cities show to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Lewis H. Lapham

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

Lewis H. Lapham

Lewis H. Lapham

Lewis H. Lapham

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Born: January 8, 1935

Died: July 23, 2024 (aged 89)

Bio: Lewis Henry Lapham was an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006.

Known for:

Money and Class In America (1988)
Gag rule (2004)
Lapham's Rules of Influence (1999)
Waiting for the barbarians (1997)

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