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"Simplicity is a great element of good breeding."

Fanny Kemble, English Actress

Breeding, Simplicity

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"Simplicity is a great element of good breeding."

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"Simplicity is a great element of good breeding."

Fanny Kemble, English Actress

Breeding, Simplicity

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"The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them."

"Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women."

"A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution."

"I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man."

"I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new."

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