Beecher Stowe House

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    “...care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ...”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    “... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.”
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    “To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)