• A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician 1872-1970
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. resignation
2. relations
3. endured
4. patient

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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. by : Bertrand Russell

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