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Your little child is the only true democrat.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Cold Money Sympathy
It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Advantage Oppression Sorrow Struggle Talk
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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Abuse Essence Slave Talk
Your little child is the only true democrat.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Children Democracy True Yourself
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Blood Cruelty Heart Man Nerve
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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Government Imagination Judgment
It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Man Right Understand World
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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Home Live Onself People Stone
It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Administration Beautiful Desire Impossible Slave
Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Black Equality Forever Grasp Hands
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Equality Freedom Grave Man
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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Busy Exception Marriage Woman World
I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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Direction Doubt Hit Myself Praise See
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Acceptance Goodness Harm Ideas Impossible People Person
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Delicate Destroy Fast Girl Shame Woman Young

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