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date: 10 February 2025

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811–96
American novelist 

  1. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
    Little Foxes (1871)
  2. I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
    said by Topsy
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) ch. 20