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jealousy

William Graham Sumner | jealousy

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

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fitness

William Graham Sumner | fitness

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

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Faith

William Graham Sumner | faith

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

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Dreams

William Graham Sumner | dreams

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

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communication

William Graham Sumner | communication

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

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business

William Graham Sumner | business

The forgotten man… He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

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