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" Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. "

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" The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "

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" But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. "

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" When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. "

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" Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. "

" Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. "