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QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:William James (1843–1916), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. letter, Sept. 11, 1906, to H.G. Wells. The Letters of William James, vol. 2 (1920).
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