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It may teach us all, though few in numbers or alone, never, by word or act, to swerve from those primal principles of duty, which, from the landing on Plymouth Rock, have been the life of Massachusetts.
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Sumner highlights the enduring principles of duty that have guided Massachusetts since its founding.
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