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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."

"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good."

"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."

"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."

"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
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