"What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?"

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"What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?"

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Kenneth Eade, American Author

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

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"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."

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