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“All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.”

Quote by Beatrice Webb

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Beatrice Webb was a British sociologist renowned for her research on social issues during the Industrial Revolution. Her work had a profound impact on later sociological theories. more

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Book:American diary, 1898

Source: American diary, 1898

“the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.”

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Author:Beatrice Webb

“Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?”

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Book:Diaries, 1924-1932

Source: Diaries, 1924-1932

“The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.”

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“The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.”

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Book:Diaries, 1924-1932

Source: Diaries, 1924-1932

“The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.”

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Author:Dorothea Brande

“The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.”

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Author:Dorothea Brande

“Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.”

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“it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.”

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Book:Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!

Source: Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!

“In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.”

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Author:Dorothea Brande