Edward Bellamy Quotes

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• Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.
• The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
• Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was…
• The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
• Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?
• If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
• With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter…
• I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those…
• I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.
• An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

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