All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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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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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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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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