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I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.
— Dorothea Dix
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Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
— Dorothea Dix
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What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
— Dorothea Dix
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Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
— Dorothea Dix
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No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
— Dorothea Dix
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My wish is to be known only thru my work.
— Dorothea Dix
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