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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Source: Dress, or Who Makes the Fashions, in Atlantic Monthly (Boston, 1864).
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe, (Jun 14 1811-1896), US author; She aroused considerable anti-slavery feeling before the Civil War with Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852.

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