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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The Cathedral,” The Atlantic Monthly (1846).

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