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Beatrice Webb quotes: Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Beatrice Webb quotes: The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Beatrice Webb quotes: That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Beatrice Webb quotes: Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Beatrice Webb quotes: It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

Beatrice Webb quotes: Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Beatrice Webb quotes: Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Beatrice Webb quotes: The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

Beatrice Webb quotes: Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Beatrice Webb quotes: All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...

Beatrice Webb quotes: Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.