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No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?
William Wilberforce
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William Wilberforce
Age: 73 †
Born: 1759
Born: August 24
Died: 1833
Died: July 29
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The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
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No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!
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