Stuart

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    ... it is use, and use alone, which leads one of us, tolerably trained to recognize any criterion of grace or any sense of the fitness of things, to tolerate ... the styles of dress to which we are more or less conforming every day of our lives. Fifty years hence they will seem to us as uncultivated as the nose-rings of the Hottentot seem today.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

    Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if he had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material ...
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)