"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."

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That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley