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Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes about Literature

A woman's health is her capital.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868). “The Chimney-corner”, p.126

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.70

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.189, Applewood Books

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.561, Harriet Beecher Stowe

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.199, Library of Alexandria

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 28, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.