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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Abraham Lincoln
Men, Desire, Slavery
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.316, Fordham Univ Press
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.