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I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

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If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

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An American credit card... is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

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The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

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No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

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Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

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Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture... have simply made us all members of one class.

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Badly off as the men... were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

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Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

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The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

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On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

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Your system was liable to periodical convulsions... business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

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Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

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Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

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Forgiving sins, I should have known, is not blotting them out. The blood of Christ only turns them red instead of black. It leaves them in the record. It leaves them in the memory.

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But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.

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