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"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."
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"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 the menial class is held in Europe."

"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 land."

"Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it."

"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so."

"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 has power."

"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."

"But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?"

"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."

"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
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