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Be not affrighted, I beseech you, at the dangers which were intended by the immortal gods only as stimulants to exertion.
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Mann encourages resilience in the face of danger, viewing challenges as opportunities for growth.
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So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
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