Quote #13

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

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  1. When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire …
  2. [I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, sui…
  3. The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
  4. An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.
  5. Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
  6. Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture...have simply made us all members of one class.
  7. Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease an…
  8. If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

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