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Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.

Francis Lieber

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The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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Francis Lieber

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Born: March 18, 1798
Died: October 2, 1872 (aged 74)
Bio: Francis Lieber, known as Franz Lieber in Germany, was a German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher. He edited an Encyclopaedia Americana.
Known for:
  1. Encyclopedia Americana (1829)
  2. Legal and Political Hermeneutics (1839)
  3. Civil liberty and self-government

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