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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Source: Sermon, c. 13 Jan. 1895, Mukwonago, Wis. (published in Olympia Brown, An Autobiography, ed. by Gwendolen B. Willis, 1960; repr. in Annual Journal of the Universalist Historical Society, vol. 4, 1963)
-- Olympia Brown, ( 1835-1900), US suffragist, ministero; She was the first American woman to be ordained by full denominational authority of the Universalist church.

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