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Sinclair Lewis - Dodsworth (1929)

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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

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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.

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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is..."

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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

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Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Born: February 7, 1885
Died: January 10, 1951 (aged 65)
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