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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I should like to be also something of a man.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I should like to be also something of a man.
Approximate author period: c. 1835 AD · industrial
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- Theodore Parker
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- Approximate author period: c. 1835 AD · industrial
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
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