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Their prejudices and narrow dislikes, their raw vanity and sullen distrust of all who were better schooled than they, count for little when weighed against their intense earnestness and heroic self-sacrifice.
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This statement emphasizes the importance of earnestness and self-sacrifice over personal flaws in the context of frontier life.
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