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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.
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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