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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.
         

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.


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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.




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