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In this cause I never asked who were my associates or how many they would number.
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He emphasizes his commitment to the cause regardless of the number of supporters he had at any given time.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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