"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import"

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Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.37, Prestwick House Inc

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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“Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.”
“There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth.”
“Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.”
“The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. Until that task is accomplished, even partial reform will prove elusive, because white influence permeates every issue in U.S. society, whether domestic or foreign.”
“I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think of it”
“There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.”
“You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.”
“Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Iː36, 1925.

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