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This is a debt which, though daily paid, can never be cancelled while life endures.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “This is a debt which, though daily paid, can never be cancelled while life endures.”
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He reflects on the perpetual nature of our obligations to one another, which can never be fully repaid.
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