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The accomplishments it yields are of a mock quality, rather than of a real, having about the same relation to a substantial and finished culture that honor has to character.
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Mann critiques the superficial nature of accomplishments gained through slavery.
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My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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