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Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his…
Quote byHarriet Beecher Stowe · 1811–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 40..
English (original)
Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, — roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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