My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
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I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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I've got money so I'm a Conservative.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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