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I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake.
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Sumner expresses his willingness to endure criticism for the sake of his principles.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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