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law may humans
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
mother lying hands
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.
law conventions
Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
safe deposits boxes
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.
mother strong prayer
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.
stupid world bed
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
smile motherhood tears
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
husband hate found-happiness
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
spurs genius
Necessity is the spur of genius.
husband exit lovers
One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
love-is way height
Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.
gymnastics mind body
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
good-person enough shows
It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.
people society climbs
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.