Beecher Stowe House

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    Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    Human nature is above all things—lazy.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    A woman’s health is her capital.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
    Diogenes of Sinope (c. 410–c. 320 B.C.)