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If there be one sentiment more deeply rooted in the public heart of Massachusetts than any other, more intertwined and grown together with all the fibres of its being, it is the sentiment of liberty.
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Mann asserts that the sentiment of liberty is deeply ingrained in the identity of Massachusetts.
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