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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Business
Scarcity
Emotional
Economy
Society

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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
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... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
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Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.
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