Henry Lewis

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    Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
    —Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886)

    In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
    —Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)