Herman Melville
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Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant. ✨ Herman Melville (1970). White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war, p.276, Northwestern University Press

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