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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Who was your mother Never had none said the child, with another grin. Never had any mother What do you mean Where were you born Never was born Do you know who made you Nobody, as I knows on, said the child, with a short laugh.... I spect I growd.Harriet Beecher Stowe
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind . . . cast-off and everyday clothing.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, . . . all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers . . .
Harriet Beecher Stowe
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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