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Babbitt / The Man Who Was Thursday QUOTES

1 " It was coming to him that perhaps all life as he knew it and vigorously practised it was futile; that heaven as portrayed by the Reverend Dr. John Jennison Drew was neither probable nor very interesting; that he hadn't much pleasure out of making money; that it was of doubtful worth to rear children merely that they might rear children who would rear children. What was it all about? What did he want? "

― Sinclair Lewis , Babbitt / The Man Who Was Thursday