"I prefer to be true to myself…" — Frederick Douglass

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我宁愿对自己真实，即使冒着招致他人嘲笑的风险，也不愿虚伪以至于引起自己的憎恶。

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“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong”

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