Beecher Stowe House

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

    “The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.”
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    “The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of folly and inanity.”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    “What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)