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“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
— Jane Addams
Social reformer and Nobel Peace laureate
As quoted in The MacMillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by John Daintith, Hazel Egerton, Rosalind Ferguson, Anne Stibbs and Edmund Wright, p. 374.
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