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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal t

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. – Olympia Brown

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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. – Olympia Brown

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Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

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Time the great destroyer of other mens happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. – Isaac DIsraeli

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