Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Harriet Martineau
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  2. [Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

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  4. It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

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