"It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. β I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician.βI should like to be, also, something of a man."
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As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 326.
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Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 β May 10, 1860) was a reforming American minister of the Unitarian church, an abolitionist, and a Transcendentalist.
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