“The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.”
Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.”
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
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