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"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."
"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."
"Our differences are the real treasures."
"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."
"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
"Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles."
"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."
"I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were."
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"That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President."
"However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children."
"Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond."
"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."
"Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today."
"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia."
"In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time."
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