No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in … - Horace Mann

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There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

Horace Mann

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

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He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

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Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

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The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.

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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

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