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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but 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.

Source: The Lady Who Does Her Own Work, in Atlantic Monthly (Boston), 1864.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe, (Jun 14 1811-1896), US author; She aroused considerable anti-slavery feeling before the Civil War with Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852.

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