Sinclair Lewis's stuff mainly dates to the 1920's and 30's. So why does it sound so much like he's a current pundit?
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He still had a fragment of his boyhood belief that congressmen were persons of intelligence and importance.
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
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.
The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trouser-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working.
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
All from Sinclair Lewis, 1885 - 1951
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