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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEGeneral rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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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.
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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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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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