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With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
 Jane Addams

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
 Jane Addams
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
 Jane Addams
It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.
 Jane Addams
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.
 Jane Addams
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.
 Jane Addams