Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only it is moral also a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe i
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