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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
Beauty
"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
Ignorance
"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."
Sacrifice
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
Nature
"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"
Books
"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
Love
"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
Man
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
Art
"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
Being
"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."
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"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union."
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"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
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"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
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"The master doesn't need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it."
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"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
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"Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized."
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"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
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