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  1. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    cigar, and walked up and down before the house, a portly,
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  2. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    Čím dřív si člověk uvědomí, že se s ním nikdo nebude mazlit a že nemůže čekat, aby ho někdo krmil zadarmo a tak, nebo že jeho parchantům někdo poskytne bezplatné vzdělání a co všechno, dokud si na to nevydělá, rozumíš, tím dřív se vrhne do práce a bude vyrábět – vyrábět – vyrábět. To Amerika potřebuje, a ne ty vaše pohádečky, které v dělníkovi jenom oslabují sílu vůle a sugerují jeho parchantům všelijaké myšlenky, které dělné třídě nepříslušejí. {přel. J. Škvorecký}
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  3. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore."
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  4. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    I don't mean to say we're perfect. We've got a lot to do in the way of extending the paving of motor boulevards, for, believe me, it's the fellow with four to ten thousand a year, say, and an automobile and a nice little family in a bungalow on the edge of town, that makes the wheels of progress go round!
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  5. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    Gosh all fishhooks!" Ted wailed to Eunice, as they wolfed hot chocolate, lumps of nougat, and an assortment of glace nuts, in the mosaic splendor of the Royal Drug Store, "it gets me why Dad doesn't just pass out from being so poky.
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  6. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.
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  7. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new day.
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  8. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    ------------ WHAT WE TEACH YOU How to address your lodge. How to give toasts. How to tell dialect stories. How to propose to a lady. How to entertain banquets. How to make convincing selling-talks. How to build big vocabulary. How to create a strong personality. How to become a rational, powerful and original thinker. How to be a MASTER MAN!
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  9. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    CAN YOU PLAY A MAN'S PART? 'If you are walking with your mother, sister or best girl and some one passes a slighting remark or uses improper language, won't you be ashamed if you can't take her part? Well, can you? 'We teach boxing and self-defense by mail. Many pupils have written saying that after a few lessons they've outboxed bigger and heavier opponents. The lessons start with simple movements practised before your mirror-holding out your hand for a coin, the breast-stroke in swimming, etc. Before you realize it you are striking scientifically, ducking, guarding and feinting, just as if you had a real opponent before you.
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  10. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    There were eight simple lessons in plain language anybody could understand, and I studied them just a few hours a night, then started practising on the wife. Soon found I could talk right up to the Super and get due credit for all the good work I did. They began to appreciate me and advance me fast, and say, old doggo, what do you think they're paying me now? $6,500 per year! And say, I find I can keep a big audience fascinated, speaking on any topic. As a friend, old boy, I advise you to send for circular {no obligation} and valuable free Art Picture to:- SHORTCUT EDUCATIONAL PUB. CO. Desk WA Sandpit, Iowa. ARE YOU A 100 PERCENTER OR A 10 PERCENTER?"
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  11. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    يدهشني أن أجد أشخاصاً كثيرين يعرفون عن شؤوني الشخصية أكثر مما أعرفه عن نفسي.
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  12. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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