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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. – Lydia Maria Child

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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

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

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! – Thomas Babington Macaulay

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. – Edward W. Howe

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