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bs2 · @bsmall2
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> ... 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”?
- wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/b
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#usadisease #americandisease #success #BitchGoddess #williamjames

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bs2 · @bsmall2
226 followers · 4006 posts · Server mstdn.jp
word histories - origin of the phrase ‘the bitch goddess’ (material success)

> ... 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”?
- wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/b
on

#usadisease #americandisease #success #BitchGoddess #williamjames

Last updated 1 year ago
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