Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.Henry Ward Beecher
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every facultyhow to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
Henry Ward Beecher
Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher
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