It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
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Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.
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O Logic born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants come to the aid of thy master, Legislation.
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