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The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues.

— John Bascom

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The only way to hasten the kingdom is to hasten growth; to hasten work, and that, too, along the very lines in which the "resounding loom of time" is weaving in its various-colored threads.

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