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Well, Sir, I accept the Senator’s word, and I say ‘criticism.’ But I say, in his criticism, he used every word that I can conceive a fertile imagination could invent, or a malignant passion suggest.
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Sumner critiques the nature of criticism he received, highlighting its imaginative and passionate qualities.
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