Business Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.” quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe — Download Open image

““What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.””

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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

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God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from…

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness,…

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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

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