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There is more done with pens than with swords.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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Convince Difficult Easy Independence Opinion Quiet Silence Soft
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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Compare Home Reading Room Yourself
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
There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
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Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings 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 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
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.
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Advantage Oppression Sorrow Struggle Talk
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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Diamond Discover Ideas Light Strange
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
My vocation to preach on paper.
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Myself Paper Talk Voice
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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Best Inspirational People Strong Support Weakness
People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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Deal Goodness Hate People Trouble
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Beautiful Old Wake Up Woman Young
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Bond Build Discover Friendship
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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Decision Drink Family Food Greatness Health Person Preparation
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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Far Perfection Respect Worth

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