Conditions Quote by Fanny Kemble

“When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.” quote by Fanny Kemble — Download Open image

“When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.”

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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…

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Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

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Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and…

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The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

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A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes by which…

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What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the…

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The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

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Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been…

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The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a…

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I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to…

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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…

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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and…

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One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even…

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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

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The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

John Stuart Mill