| The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. |
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- William James |
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| We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. |
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- William James |
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| Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. |
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- William James |
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| Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. |
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- William James |
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