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Susanna Moodie was a Canadian author renowned for her diaries and travel literature. She is particularly celebrated for her book 'Life in the Clearing: The Journal of Susanna Moodie', which provides a vivid narrative of her life in Upper Canada. Moodie, born on December 6, 1803, in Scotland, immigrated to Canada with her husband, John Moodie, in the early 19th century. Her writings offer insights into the trials and triumphs of settlers in the New World.

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“The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.”

Source: Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada

“The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.”

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Book:The Victoria magazine, 1847-1848

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“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.”

Looks Today Life Is Dark Behinds Teach Clouds Golden Anticipation Encouraging Beam Morrow Dark Clouds

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“I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.”

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Book:Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada

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“When things come to the worse, they generally mend.”

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“Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.”

Children Character Young Passion Given Party Produce Dresses Envy Vanity Display Young Children

Book:Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

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“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”

Home Curse Chickens Coming Home Roost

Book:Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada

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“Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.”

May Reason Lying Christianity Pride Liars

Book:Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

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“What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”

Evil Memories Records Wonderful Deeds Mysterious Witness Faithful Faculty Plastic Almighty Fidelity Register Riddle Our Words Inexplicable Tablets

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About the Author

Born: December 6, 1803
Died: April 8, 1885
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Quotes: 9

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