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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
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