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When the milk is built and they’re getting the blame for it and feel sure it wasn’t their own fault they find the mop and say to themselves I’m bigger and stronger and quicker. I’ll do it. I’ll not be doing it because I’m to blame but because the others aren’t strong enough. It has to be done by somebody. I’ll do it myself.

Weak people stick up for their rights. They know how weak they are inside and are afraid others will notice it so they defend themselves and worry for fear someone will take avenge of them. The strong people don’t go too much bother about defending themselves or their rights.

When there’s spilt milk she wrote it never pays to argue very long whether the person was to blame who dropped the pan or the person who bumped the elbow. The only really thing worth doing in that case is the mop up the mess. And always it’s the strong one that has to do it.

“The possession of anything you hadn’t earned was a constant menace.”

“In the long run, the most expensive way to acquire anything was to get it for nothing.” P26

Reading progress severely handicapped by the book being in tatters - individual pages hanging on by the skin of their teeth to the rest of the book.