The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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Let us treat the men and women well treat them as if they were real perhaps they are.
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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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