Beecher Stowe

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    No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    The longest day must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)