cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.
A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter… - Fanny Kemble
A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter…
- Fanny Kemble
[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can be… - Fanny Kemble
[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can be…
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship … - Fanny Kemble
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship …
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forc… - Fanny Kemble
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forc…
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignor… - Fanny Kemble
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignor…
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it woul… - Fanny Kemble
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it woul…
...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… - Fanny Kemble
...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…
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound. - Fanny Kemble
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
[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 … - Fanny Kemble
[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 …
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