Word: unselfishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure as a proof of virtue. There clings about Mr. Lewis an irresistible suggestion of those military geniuses who, after feeding soldiers unavailingly into the holocaust of war for four years, were still thinking of nothing better than to offer up fresh hundreds of thousands in the same unselfish strategy...
...conversation then turned on the editor of the next I happened to have brought. "That man never had a generous or unselfish motive in his life; and you will never live to see him have one." I never knew of Mr. Norton's acting from any other motive. He not only read out loud at home every evening; he offered every family in the land choice material for similar reading; every Sunday he read to the inmates of the Hospital for Incurables, not Tar from Shady Hill.... To describe Charles Eliot Norton in a single phrase, I should...
...fellow physicians he commanded respect and affection; in his patients the utmost confidence; and in students of medicine and young doctors, ardent devotion often close to hero-worship. He filled a high place in the medical world, not only because of his professional skill, but because of the unselfish spirit which lent the crowning light to a naturally charming personality. In the long illness which preceded his death the strength and beauty of his character was made even more clear to all who knew...
...without a moment's hesitation, because I am fully aware of the virtues of the Jewish people as a whole, of what they and their ancestors have done for civilization and for mankind toward the development of commerce and industry, of their sobriety and diligence, their benevolence and their unselfish interest in the public welfare...
...Each [husband and wife] should be unselfish and considerate of the other and both try to keep the optimism and cheerfulness of their youth ... he ought to realize that a wife is a partner...