> ... understandable in onlooking citizens only as a symptom of the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease. Hit it hard! Your book must have a great effect. Do you remember the glorious remarks about success in Chesterton’s “Heretics”?
- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/
#WilliamJames on #BitchGoddess #Success #AmericanDisease #USADisease

> ... understandable in onlooking citizens only as a symptom of the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease. Hit it hard! Your book must have a great effect. Do you remember the glorious remarks about success in Chesterton’s “Heretics”?
- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/
#WilliamJames on #BitchGoddess #Success #AmericanDisease #USADisease

> TOIL and grow rich,
What's that but to lie
With a foul witch
And after, drained dry,
To be brought
To the chamber where
Lies one long sought
With despair.

https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy097.htm

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