“They know nothing of free black people. They are committed Abolitionists because they hate slavery and because they want to do good, but they have no particular interest in people of your race…. Like so many people of liberal persuasion, they value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.” (page 116)
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“The ways of the rich…. A very strange breed…. And Mr. Belmont, they say, is pretty nearly the richest of them all…. That should make him, I suppose, very nearly the strangest of them all.”
“Yes, sir,” said Jonathan, aware that the syllogism did not quite work, but unwilling to say so. (page 160)
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“It is the nature of men, sir, especially great men, to see themselves as indispensable. Whereas it is in the nature of women to see their friends and families as indispensable.” (page 454)
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“In politics all rumors tend to be believed as long as they are harmful to the other side.” (page 461)
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“The seance of self-justification had become too eerie.” (page 483)
