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Take thy deserving, then; wear it for life on thy forehead!
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Sumner urges an individual to embrace their deserved recognition and wear it proudly.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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