| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12548 |
| QUOTATION: | ... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Tennessee Claflin (18461923), U.S. journalist, lecturer, and social reform advocate; relocated to England. Talks and Essays, vol. 1, ch. 7 (1897). |
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