Mr. Avery

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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Topic

Never giving up Perseverance

Speaker

Mr. Avery

Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Source

Oldtown Folks

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Oldtown Folks." Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks. Library of America, 1982, ch. 39.