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Ideals, my dear Golightly, are the root of every evil. When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

— John Oliver Hobbes Some Emotions and a Moral (1891)

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Source: Some Emotions and a Moral (1891), pt. 1, sect. 1
Work: Some Emotions and a Moral, 1891
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Cf. Love of money

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