I have gathered scattered pages from this holy book, from the filthy street gutters of Baltimore, and washed and dried them, that in the moments of my leisure, I might get a word or two of wisdom from them.
Douglass vividly recounts his resourceful and determined efforts to acquire knowledge from discarded biblical texts in his youth.
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