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The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
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Laura Jane Addams
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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
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That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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