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Charles Sumner: “You cannot do it without checking the disposition to communicate very essentially.”

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You cannot do it without checking the disposition to communicate very essentially.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner warns that taxing communication will discourage people from connecting with one another.

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