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— Harriet Beecher Stowe"O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs."
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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