So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETo do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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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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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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