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Kind Words Cost No More Than Unkind Ones . . . And We May Scatter The Seeds Of Courtesy And Kindliness Around Us At So Little Expense. If You Would Fall Into Any Extreme Let It Be On The Side Of Gentleness. The Human Mind Is So Constructed That It Resists Vigor And Yields To Softness.

Pleasure Is In Itself A Good; Nay, Even Setting Aside Immunity From Pain, The Only Good.

All Government Is A Trust. Every Branch Of Government Is A Trust, And Immemorially Acknowledged To Be So.

What Else Is It That Should Trace The Insuperable Line? Is It The Faculty Of Reason Or Perhaps The Faculty Of Discourse? But A Full-grown Horse Or Dog Is Beyond Comparison A More Rational, As Well As More Conversable Animal, Than An Infant Of A Day Or A Week Or Even A Month Old. But Suppose They Were Otherwise, What Would It Avail? The Question Is Not, Can They Reason?, Nor Can They Talk? But, Can They Suffer? Why Should The Law Refuse Its Protection To Any Sensitive Being? The Time Will Come When Humanity Will Extend Its Mantle Over Everything Which Breathes.

Create All The Happiness You Are Able To Create; Remove All The Misery You Are Able To Remove. Every Day Will Allow You, --will Invite You To Add Something To The Pleasure Of Others, --or To Diminish Something Of Their Pains.