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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  

✵ 30. mars 1820 – 25. avril 1878
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Anna Sewell: Citations en anglais

“[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. III, p. 20

“I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“It is good people who make good places.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

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.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XIII, p. 66

“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“My doctrine is this, that if we see
cruelty or wrong that we have the
power to stop, and do nothing, we
make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XXXVIII, p. 192

“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“If you in the morning
Throw minutes away,
You can't pick them up
In the course of a day.
You may hurry and scurry,
And flurry and worry,
You've lost them forever,
Forever and aye.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it." -”

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“We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“Do you know why this world is as bad as it is? […] it is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doer to light.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XXXVIII, p. 192

“I am never afraid of what I know.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XXIX, p. 142

“God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.”

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Anna Sewell livre Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XII, p. 61

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