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• Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sex, Soul And Body, Giving

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1847). “The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy”, p.6

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• The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sympathy, Delicate, Wells

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.212

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• As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

  Catharine Beecher

  People, Common Sense, Soul

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1864). “Religious Training of Children in the School, the Family, and the Church”, p.212

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• Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.

  Catharine Beecher

  Children, Book, Men

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• As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

  Catharine Beecher

  Writing, Talking, People

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.206

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• ... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Responsibility, Race

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• Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

  Catharine Beecher

  Expression, Giving, Good Man

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.197, Applewood Books

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• ... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.

  Catharine Beecher

  Civilization, Race, History

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1857). “Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People”, p.37

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• The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

  Catharine Beecher

  Prayer, Book, Tea

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.188, Applewood Books

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• Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.

  Catharine Beecher

  Coffee, Smell, Bags

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.

  Catharine Beecher

  Food, Water, Soup

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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