“The trouble with this country is… that there're too many people going about saying "The trouble with this country is—"”

—  Sinclair Lewis , book Dodsworth

Dodsworth, Ch. 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=_nL1PGgdVDIC&q=%22The+trouble+with+this+country+is%22+%22that+there're+too+many+people+going+about+saying%22&pg=PA82#v=onepage (1929)

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American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885–1951

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