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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Biography

Author Profession: Author
Nationality: American
Born: June 14, 1811
Died: July 1, 1896

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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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.
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