“ A man that's a real man has to take the rough with the smooth. ”
Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry (1927). copy citation
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
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| Source | Elmer Gantry |
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| Date | 1927 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300851h.html |
Context
“he reflected, "till I get back to Zenith and tell old Potts and Hickenlooper that!"
As they rode to the hotel on the 'bus, Cleo sighed, "Oh, you were wonderful! But I never knew you had such a wild time of it in your first pastorate."
"Oh, well, it was nothing. A man that's a real man has to take the rough with the smooth."
"That's so!"
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He stood impatiently on a corner of the Rue de la Paix, while Cleo gaped into the window of a perfumer. (She was too well trained to dream of asking him to buy expensive perfume.) He looked at the façades in the Place Vendôme.”
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