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The North tends to doing--the South to appearing.
Said by
Henry Ward Beecher
Source
gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “The North tends to doing--the South to appearing.”
Editor's note · Context
This statement illustrates the differing priorities of action versus appearance in Northern and Southern cultures.
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