“Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man’s difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole …”

—  Jane Addams

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 8

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pioneer settlement social worker 1860–1935

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