“No one who sets out to make the world better should expect people to enjoy it. All history shows what happens to would-be improvers.’’

— Charlotte Perkins Graham (1860-1935), a Hartford, Conn., native, was an author and social activist.]\

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“You've got that kiss, that kiss that warms
That makes reformers reform reforms
'Cause you've got that thing, that certain thing.’'

— From the song “You’ve Got That Thing,’’ by Cole Porter (1891-1964) , who was educated in New England.