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• There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him… — Charles Dudley Warner
• The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing. — Elizabeth Towne
• The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends. — Benjamin Franklin
• Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which… — Frederick Douglass
• The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you… — Pliny the Elder
• The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. — George Santayana
• This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,… — Frederick Douglass
• The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness… — Helen Keller
• [T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express… — Gustave Flaubert
• The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over… — George Bancroft
• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit… — Frederick Douglass

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