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Beatrice Potter Webb was a British sociologist, economist, and social reformer. Along with her husband, Sidney Webb, she was a leading figure in the Fabian Society and played a key role in the development of the British welfare state. Her extensive research and writings on poverty, labor conditions, and social policy helped shape modern social science and public policy. Webb's work remains influential in the fields of sociology and social reform.
"Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others."
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