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This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think "money will answer all things," is too much the characteristic of Americans.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

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Oh! wondrous power, how little understood,
Entrusted to the Mother's mind alone
To fashion genius, form the soul for good,
Inspire a West, or train a Washington!

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

A man is never more self satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

Woman's empire, holier, more refined,
Moulds, moves and sways the fall'n but God-breathed mind,
Lifting the earth-crushed heart to hope and heaven.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes, but its households.

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