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"I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave."
Man,
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
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"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."
Cause
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
Life
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
Society
"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."
Time
"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
Being
"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."
Man
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."
Politics
"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."
Politics
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
Progress
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
Future
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