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Success is a great deodorant. -Elizabeth Taylor |
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Source: Society in America, vol. 3, Marriage, 1837.
-- Harriet Martineau, (Jun 12 1802-1876), English social reformer, writer; Despite deafness and heart disease, she was prominent among English intellectuals of her time; wrote The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte.