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The wickedness which I now begin to expose is immeasurably aggravated by the motive which prompted it.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The wickedness which I now begin to expose is immeasurably aggravated by the motive which prompted it.”
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Sumner highlights the moral implications of the wickedness he is about to reveal.
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