Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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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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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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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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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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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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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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