- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Civilised
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- Nov 07, 2020
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Invention is the mother of necessity.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
- Arrested Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
- Leisure
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- Nov 07, 2020