"Death! Strange that there should be such a……" — Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!"
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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97 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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