So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a p…

Abraham Lincoln
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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself. ✨ Fragment on Slavery ca. 1 July 1854
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