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1 " Evil people must spread their evil everywhere. "
― Jane Smiley , The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
2 " But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before. "
3 " If you don't furnish your brain with what everyone knows, then it will furnish itself with what no one else knows! "
4 " In truth Mr Jonas Silk was as niggardly as he was jealous, and my sister Beatrice had as much interest in Kansas as she did in the czar of all the Russias, and so my brother Mr. Horace Silk worked out his plans in a white heat of frustrated eagerness. "
5 " You don't make 'em trot for one thing and run for the other. "
6 " Northerners, even abolitionists, knew more about how and why to chop down the slavery tree than they ever knew what to do with its sour fruit. "
7 " We knew right off how to think of them but not precisely how to feel about them. "
8 " It didn't occur to us. We had swum in the ocean of religion all our lives and not gotten wet. "