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Catharine E. Beecher
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“The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...”
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“Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.”
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“The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.”
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“The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.”
Catharine E. Beecher, U.S. educator, social reformer, poet, writer
(1800 - 1878)
Full name: Catharine Esther Beecher.