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No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. – Alexander Herzen

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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. – Alexander Herzen

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Slavery
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Alexander Herzen
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. – Alexander Herzen

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Modern, Modernism
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Alexander Herzen
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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! – Alexander Herzen

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Beauty
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Reform, Correction

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. – Moli

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Reform, Correction

By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof. – Proverb

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Reform, Correction

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, — that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. – John Jay Chapman

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Reform, Correction

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