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If children are a joy for the well-to-do, they are a torment for seven-eights of all civlizees, who cannot afford to maintain and educate them.

— Charles Fourier

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Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.

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Such results are well worth the sacrifice of a few prejudices.

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There is no idea more novel, more surprising, than that of associating three hundred families of different degrees of fortune, knowledge and capacity.

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An empire derives no advantage from the caresses of two turtledoves who spend a year cooing to each other in public meetings.

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