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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.