Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

“I did not write it. (Uncle Tom's Cabin) God wrote it. I merely did his dictatio…”

“It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the …”

“O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on …”

“Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a r…”