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'Cause I's wicked,—I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

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Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.

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Human nature is above all things — lazy.

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