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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

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Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
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tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
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Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?
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