Fanny Kemble Quotes

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• Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being.
• Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with…
• 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…
• They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen,…
• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their…
• I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
• Carols of gladness ring from every tree.
• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving…
• Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is…
• The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form…
• The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the…
• Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over…
• A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar…
• Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
• But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the…
• I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
• I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any…
• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our…

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