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I have lived in vain, if such an attempt on me can fail to rebound on its author.
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Sumner asserts that any malicious attempts against him will ultimately backfire on the perpetrator.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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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