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Thus will it be with our own brethren or children, should we shut up from them the book of knowledge, or seal their senses so that they could not read it.
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Mann emphasizes the importance of access to knowledge for the development of individuals.
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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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