Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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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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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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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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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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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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