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 STOWETalk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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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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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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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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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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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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Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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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