Rebecca Harding Davis

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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It was part of your religion to hate the British. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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No man surely has so short a memory as the American. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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