People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, -- tha

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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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much. – Eugene Delacroix

If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. – Lord Melbourne

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