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Religion is love in no case is it logic.

Beatrice Webb

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Beatrice Webb
Age: 85 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 22
Died: 1943
Died: April 30
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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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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
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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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. . . 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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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.
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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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