Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
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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.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people are to be taken in small doses.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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That which builds is better than that which is built.
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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.
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