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- If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half…
- Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can…
- There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of…
- What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
- For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which…
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