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" We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. "

Bill Bryson

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" It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. "

" No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. "

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" There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free. "