| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30533 |
| QUOTATION: | The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. Thatwith the squalid cash interpretation put on the word successis our national disease. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William James (18431916), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. letter, Sept. 11, 1906, to H.G. Wells. The Letters of William James, vol. 2 (1920). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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