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HENRY WARD BEECHER

Mr. Beecher is a remarkably handsome man when he is in the full tide of sermonizing, and his face is lit up with animation, but he is as homely as a singed cat when he isn't doing anything.
- letter to the San Francisco Alta California, March 30, 1867

What a pity that so insignificant a matter as the chastity or unchastity of an Elizabeth Tilton could clip the locks of this Samson and make him as other men, in the estimation of a nation of Lilliputians creeping and climbing about his shoe-soles.
- letter to Joseph Twichell, 14 March 1887. Reprinted in The Most Famous Man in America

 

Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher

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