Do not think you can make a girl lovely, if you do not make her happy - John Ruskin
In the study of man it is easier to understand the species than the individual - LaRochefoucauld
Man would not know how to create a maggot, but he creates gods in the dozens - Montaigne
Our great hospitals, which should be storehouses of exact observations, made on a large scale, and for which accurate ideas should be disseminated throughout the land, are almost completely without the means of fulfilling this very important object – Benjamin Philips (1838)
The outbreak of Fenianism had furnished a rude commentary on Sir Robert Peel's statistics - Sir Spencer Walpole
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