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"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."
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"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."
"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."
"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."
"Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying."
"The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train."
"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."
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"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
"The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class."
"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."
"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
"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 be thus endangered."
"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."
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