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The knife wounds him who would use it to wound his fellow.
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Mann uses a metaphor to illustrate the self-destructive nature of harmful actions.
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Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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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