If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
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We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital
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Education... beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich it prevents being poor.
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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
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One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
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In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
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