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Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman The Optimist (1850)

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We discern beyond the smile and the honeyed word, and are sickened at the self-created hollowness of a human heart.

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The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

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For Truth makes holy Love's illusive dreams,
And their best promise constantly redeems.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

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I often muse upon the life of the true artist until it redeems to my mind, the more prosaic aspects of human existence.

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