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Ah, Hope! What would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

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I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way — to lie down mistress, and get up master.

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When things come to the worst, they generally mend.

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Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

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The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Susanna Moodie

Susanna Moodie
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Born: December 6, 1803
Died: April 8, 1885 (aged 81)
Bio: Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.
Known for:
  1. Roughing it in the Bush (1852)
  2. Life in the clearings (1853)
  3. Life in the Backwoods
  4. Flora Lyndsay (1854)
  5. George Leatrim

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