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So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

Basis, Becomes, Complacency, Popular, Possession, Self
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These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.

Character, Expression, Formed, Human, Nature, Single Life

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

Aptitude, Habit, Habituation, Individual, Life, Quite

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Aesthetic, Greatly, Heightened, Objects, Possession, Serviceability

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

Consistency, Conventions, Force, Maintenance, Tradition

The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

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