"The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease."
— William James

January 1, 1970

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To H. G. Wells (11 September 1906)

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To H. G. Wells (11 September 1906)