Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
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It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning round.
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names
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