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"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron."
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"It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness."
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"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
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"I wonder at the idleness of tears."
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"Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish."
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"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
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"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
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"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron."
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"I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice."
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"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
Agriculture

"In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side."
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"I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise."
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"Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges."
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"I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon."
Moon

"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one."
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"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race."
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"There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females."
Education

"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery."
Soul
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