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Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Beatrice Webb

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.
BEATRICE WEBB

Class Facts Trying
The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
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Genius Inheritance Wealth
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal – a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.
BEATRICE WEBB

Half Ordinary Waste
All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.
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Alcohol Drinking Lines
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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Class Fear People
That part of the Englishman’s nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
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Drifting Found Political
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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Demise Nature World
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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Identity Personification Writing
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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Fear Patient Strong
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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Benches May Men
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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Career Class Men
At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can’t get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.
BEATRICE WEBB

Animal Luxury Training
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
BEATRICE WEBB

Love Religion Women
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
BEATRICE WEBB

Ego History Personal Running
Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
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Cabinets Government Littles
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
BEATRICE WEBB

Education Men Self

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

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