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Irving Babbitt

"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."

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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

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"Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space."

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"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."

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"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."

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"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."

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"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."

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"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."

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"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."

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"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."

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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."

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"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."

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"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."

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