The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
BEATRICE WEBB
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Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
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The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
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If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, “You’re the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
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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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Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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If I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
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All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity.
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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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Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
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That part of the Englishman’s nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
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Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
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