I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
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- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; Wording matched to cited full-text edition; whitespace, punctuation, capitalization and footnote markers normalized. Literary speakers reviewed.
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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