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The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
 Richard Whately

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
 Richard Whately
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
 Richard Whately
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
 Richard Whately
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
 Richard Whately
It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.
 Richard Whately