Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEA woman’s health is her capital.
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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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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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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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 greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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