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" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "

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" A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers. "

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" Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? "

" People do not lack strength; they lack will. "

" We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. "

" The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. "

" Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. "

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" Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. "

" Conscience is God present in man. "

" The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. "

" Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. "

" Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. "

" Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. "

" Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. "

" The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. "

" What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. "

" Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. "

" It is by suffering that human beings become angels. "

" Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. "

" A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. "

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Compliment

" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "

" The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. "

" Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. "

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" Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. "

" Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. "

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Doing

Right

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" As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. "

" The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. "

" Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. "

" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "

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Beautiful

" Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. "

" Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. "