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The death I should prefer wou...

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

Fanny Kemble 62 quotes

Better trust all, and be dece...

Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.

Fanny Kemble 62 quotes

... it's always determined ch...

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

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Modesty is a diamond setting ...

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

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Your theory of partial immort...

Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

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...I cannot help being astoni...

...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.

Fanny Kemble 62 quotes

[On disagreeing with her husb...

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

Fanny Kemble 62 quotes

My chief time for reading is ...

My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.

Fanny Kemble 62 quotes

An actor's life is the shadow...

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

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They frequently find the trut...

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

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I never desire to know anythi...

I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

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Yesterday morning I amused my...

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

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I have been taking my daily w...

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

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But I do not admit the compar...

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

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I have sometimes been haunted...

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

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The most intense curiosity an...

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

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Yet thousands of slaves throu...

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.

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I said I thought female labou...

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

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I have been out again on the ...

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

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The white man's blood and bon...

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

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