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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

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Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the w...more

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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

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A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, cou...more

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The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most difficult of all human beings to analyze. You scar...more

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[On marriage and permanent attach

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There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the wor...more

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At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

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The only Christian work is good work well done.