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Saturday, July 31

No One Actually Does Those Things

"Well, I can't help, as I know of. I can't get his mother, and I can't love him myself, nor anybody else, as I know of."
"Why Can't you?" said Eva
"Love Dodo! Why, Eva, you wouldn't have me! I may like him well enough; but you don't love your servants."
"I do, indeed."
"How odd!"
"Don't the Bible say we must love everybody?"
"Oh, the Bible! To be sure, it says a great many such things; but, then, nobody ever thinks of doing them—you know, Eva, nobody does."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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