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> [I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/i-never-desire-to-know-anything-of-the-detail-of-political-measures/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

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## More by Fanny Kemble

> [I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/i-never-desire-to-know-anything-of-the-detail-of-political-measures/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/place-time-life-death-earth-heaven-are-divisions-and-distinctions-we/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/yet-thousands-of-slaves-throughout-the-southern-states-are-thus/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/the-master-s-irresponsible-power-has-no-such-bound/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes by which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/a-good-many-causes-tend-to-make-good-masters-and-mistresses-quite-as/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/what-shall-i-do-with-all-the-days-and-hours-that-must-be-counted-ere/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/the-spring-is-already-here-with-her-hands-full-of-flowers/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/politics-of-all-sorts-i-confess-are-far-beyond-my-limited-powers-of/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/the-death-i-should-prefer-would-be-to-break-my-neck-off-the-back-of-a/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/i-said-i-thought-female-labour-of-the-sort-exacted-from-these-slaves/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/the-white-man-s-blood-and-bones-have-begotten-this-bronze-race-and/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/the-most-intense-curiosity-and-excitement-prevailed-and-though-the/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/maids-must-be-wives-and-mothers-to-fulfil-th-entire-and-holiest-end/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/rome-seems-to-me-the-place-in-the-world-where-one-can-best-dispense/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

> [The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fanny-kemble/the-southern-newspapers-with-their-advertisements-of-negro-sales-and/)

[Fanny Kemble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fanny-kemble/)

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