picayune quotes

The economic services that it can render are picayune compared to the moral effect that it produces, and its true function is to create in two or more persons a feeling of solidarity.

-Durkheim, EŁ  mile
  Of labour. The Division of Labor in Society (translated by George Simpson,1933).

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