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Harriet Beecher Stowe has 102 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by…
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So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging…
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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is…
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing…
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I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key…
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for…
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Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life,…
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'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where…
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Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that…
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see…
— Jane Austen
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If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
— Angela Carter
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To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear…
— William Ernest Henley
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I feel like I'm that new age. Real futuristic grimy shit. But it's like, now niggas will step up to where you're…
— Lil B
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It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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