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“It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange of affection. There is not on earth a more merciless extractor of love from others than a thoroughly selfish woman; and the more unlovely she grows, the more jealously and scrupulously she extracts love, to the uttermost farthing.”

Love Affection Selfishness Extraction

Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.”

Love Death Mother Family Mothers Death Of A Loved One Family Relationships

Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.”

Love Summer Flowers Elm

Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way back to the terrors and perils of that dark land, that he may bring out his sister, or mother, or wife.”

Love Risk Bravery Slavery Heroism Fugitive Slave

Book:Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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