Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally embarks on his career, he must work for at least ten years before he earns sufficient income on which to support a wife and family. Consequently, should the ordinary Harvard graduate marry before he is 33, parents must lend their financial assistance or he and his family must live like paupers...
Conduct remains a personal matter only as long as individuals accept the responsibility which this concept involves. When any large group of them fail to understand, consciously or unconsciously, that they must avoid inflicting useless suffering on others, the matter concerns the community in which they live...
...awful glad to see you, Willy, and I live right next door to your...
Therefore the Government does just that. On this land live farmers who make a living from it, even if it is of a marginal kind. Hence, under this "resettlement program" they are removed to other and better land, financed by the Government. There if he is to make a living "above the margin" he must produce a salable surplus of goods--which of course knocks the AAA limited production plan out of its hypothetical balance again...
Only yesterday the scandal began; only yesterday Senor Donna Inez sent the rapscallion away. But why be angry with the world? It is bound to turn on its axis; and the Senoritas and the Maters and the Paters and all humanity along with it. One must live, die, make love, pay taxes. Why fret about them if the hour be sweet. It is all amusing; dangerous; melancholy; inevitable. Philosopher's food; the poet's playground; the lover's misery. And so away: the soul of living is its license. Thus mused Donny Juan; and some hundred cantos bear witness...