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- One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or…
- The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of…
- No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good…
- It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in…
- Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
- So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over…
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