Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can… — Sinclair Lewis
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure-wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
Main Street · 1920
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Lewis, Sinclair. "Main Street." Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey. Library of America, 1992, ch. 13.
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Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920, ch. 13.
