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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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It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.
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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
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If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
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As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
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The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.
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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
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Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.
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A wise man has told us that men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.
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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
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In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.
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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?
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This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.
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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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