"Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform."
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"The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms."
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"We must reform society before we can reform ourselves."
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"It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least."
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"We cannot reform our forefathers."
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"Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me."
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"The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms."
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"I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it."
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"Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform."
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"There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders."
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"We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history."
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"The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules."
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"My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against."
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"Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing."
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"I love reform better than its modes."
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"There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation."
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"There is no history of how bad became better."
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"We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many."
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"To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left."
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"It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump."
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