"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.“
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"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
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"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
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