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William Graham Sumner

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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

William Graham Sumner, “The New Social Creed,” Earth-​Hunger and Other Essays, p. 210 (1913)

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