No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
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