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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind . . . cast-off and everyday clothing.

Source: Little Foxes, ch. 1, 1865.
-- 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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