“As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”

— Hosea Ballou

Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 828.

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American Universalist minister (1771–1852) 1771–1852

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