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

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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist. – Aldous Huxley

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. – Samuel Johnson

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

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

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