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Fidelity To Conscience Is Inconsistent With Retiring Modesty. If It Be So, Let The Modesty Succumb. It Can Be Only A False Modesty Which Can Be Thus Endangered.

I Saw No Poor Men, Except A Few Intemperate Ones. I Saw Some Very Poor Women; But God And Man Know That The Time Has Not Come For Women To Make Their Injuries Even Heard Of.

I Think That Few People Are Aware How Early It Is Right To Respect The Modesty Of An Infant.

Happiness Consists In The Full Employment Of Our Faculties In Some Pursuit.

Everything But Truth Becomes Loathed In A Sick-room ... Let The Nurse Avow That The Medicine Is Nauseous. Let The Physician Declare That The Treatment Will Be Painful. Let Sister, Or Brother, Or Friend, Tell Me That I Must Never Look To Be Well. When The Time Approaches That I Am To Die, Let Me Be Told That I Am To Die, And When.