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Rebecca Harding Davis

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

We don’t often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

Reform is born of need, not pity.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

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