The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
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Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Thenall goes well he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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