count the ways...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (1806-1861)
Public moral & peace
A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.
-William Cobbett, journalist, pamphleteer, and farmer (1763-1835)
overcome inhuman...
All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.
-Kate Sheppard, suffragist (1847-1934)
jungle of weeds...
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.
-Luther Burbank, horticulturist (1849-1926)
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