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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Human nature is above all things lazy.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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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.


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


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Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. I will only say now that it was all very funny—and we were ready to explode with laughter all the while. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North while provoking widespread anger in the South.

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