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To my dear and honoured Mother, whose life, no less than her pen, has been devoted to the welfare of others, this little book is affectionately dedicated.

— Anna Sewell Black Beauty (1877)

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My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Black Beauty (1877)

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to horses a light hand is.

Black Beauty (1877)

If a thing is right, it can be done, and if it is wrong, it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Black Beauty (1877)

[T]hey always think they can improve upon nature and mend what God has made.

Black Beauty (1877)

[A] bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.

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