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My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER XXV
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Every time he speaks of love, of human brotherhood, and the reciprocal duties of man and man, the anti-abolitionist assents--says, yes, all right--all true--we cannot have such ideas too often, or too fully expressed.

So he says, and so he feels, and only shows thereby that he is a man as well as an anti-abolitionist.

You have only to keep out of sight the manner of applying your principles, to get them endorsed every time.
Contemplating himself, he sees truth with absolute clearness and distinctness.

He only blunders when asked to lose sight of himself.

In his own cause he can beat a Boston lawyer, but he is dumb when asked to plead the cause of others.


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