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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."

"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."

"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."

"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."
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