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

— Hosea Ballou

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

Edge-Tools of Speech (1886)

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.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

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