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I have always made it a rule of my life to try and understand a subject before attempting to criticize or to influence others either for or against it.

— B. O. Flower Christian Science as a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent (1909)

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History and experience are the two master teachers of nations and civilization.

Righting the people's wrongs; a lesson from history of our own times (1917)

However little she may realize it, every girl who rides her steel horse is a vivid illustration of one of the greatest waves of progress of this century, the advancement of women in freedom and opportunity.

Fashion's Slaves (1892)

It seems to me that there is nothing in literature more valuable for young people to read than the lives of those who, in travelling the journey of life, have left their impress for good or bad on society. Every life carries its lessons - it matters not whether they are warnings or inspirations, they are alike valuable to the young who have the journey before them.

Lessons Learned from Other Lives (1889)

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