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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.

— Lydia Maria Child Letters from New York (1843)

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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

The Freedmen's Book‎ (1869)

Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.

An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Letters from New York (1843)

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

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