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“We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.”
 
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Harriet Martineau
 
Name:   Harriet Martineau
 
Nationality:   English
 
Date of Birth:   Jun 12, 1802
 
Date of Death:   Jun 27,  1876
 
Profession:   Writer
 
 
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I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
 
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
 
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
 
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
 
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
 
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