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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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