“[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. III, p. 20
Anna Mary Sewell, plus connue sous le nom d'Anna Sewell, née le 30 mars 1820 à Great Yarmouth dans le Norfolk en Angleterre, et morte le 25 avril 1878 à Old Catton dans le même comté, est une écrivaine anglaise, principalement connue pour son unique roman, Black Beauty. Wikipedia
“[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. III, p. 20
“It is good people who make good places.”
Source: This sentence is widely cited as being by Anna Sewell and from Black Beauty, but it is not to be found in the novel—her only published writing. The closest thing to it is "good places make good horses" in Ch. IX (pp. 45–46).
“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
Source: Black Beauty
“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is…”
Source: Black Beauty
“What right had they to make me suffer like that?”
Source: Black Beauty
“A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”
Black Beauty (1877), Ch. VII, p. 36
“I am never afraid of what I know.”
Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XXIX, p. 142