Go ask those people who have no care for life, who have thrown away their virtue, as it were, ask them why they are without character, and the answer will be, in so many words, that they sought but temporary success.
Washington discusses how the pursuit of temporary success can lead to a loss of character and virtue.
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I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.
When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.