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[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

— 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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