| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8724 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Olympia Brown (1835–1900), U.S. minister, first woman ordained in U.S. sermon, c. Jan. 13, 1895, Mukwonago, Wisconsin; repr. In Annual Journal of the Universalist Historical Society, vol. 4 (1963). Olympia Brown, An Autobiography, ed. Gwendolen B. Willis (1960). |
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