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"Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything""nothing else 'answered;' and Lydgate supposed that 'if things were done at all, they must be done properly'"he did not see how they were to live otherwise. If each head of household expenditure had been mentioned to him beforehand, he would have probably observed that 'it could hardly come to much,' and if any one had suggested a saving on a particular article"for example, the substitution of cheap fish for dear"it would have appeared to him simply a penny-wise, mean notion."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
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"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
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"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."
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"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."
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"Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA."
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"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine."
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"None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations' ideas, customs, values, infatuations, prejudices, ethics, and mores. The lees wrought from our seedlings contribute to the social order that oversees a newborn's future. How we conduct ourselves in the here and now emulates our heritage, delineates the parameters of the present culture, and sets the embryonic stage for the emergent ethos of our future and for the generations of people whom we will never meet."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
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"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
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"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
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"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."
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"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
Death

"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
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"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
Marriage

"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
Ethics

"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
People

"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
Life
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