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Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

— Hosea Ballou

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Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

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