Quotes with unwholesome

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• A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

  Charles Lamb
  English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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• Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

  Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit

  Benjamin Graham
  British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• seed-fields
• unwholesome
• constitutes
• responsible
• economists
• depression

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