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Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
Lydia M. Child
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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
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Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
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The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals She never produces classes.
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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