On the record
How often has he returned the harshness of his master with care and protection!
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Sumner highlights the compassion shown by individuals towards their oppressors, emphasizing resilience and care.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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