Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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