Rebecca Harding Davis was a prominent American author of the 19th century, known for her insightful social criticism and focus on the status of women. Her works often focused on social injustice and poverty, with notable titles including 'Life in the Iron Mills'.
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“It was part of your religion to hate the British.”
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“Reform is born of need, not pity.”
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“War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.”
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“The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.”
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“It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.”
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“But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.”
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“America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.”
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“No man surely has so short a memory as the American.”
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“Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.”
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“You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.”
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“The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.”
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