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Quote by Frederick Douglass
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly b

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. – Frederick Douglass

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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. – Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? – Eugenio Montale

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You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future. – Karl Lagerfeld

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Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before! – John Dryden

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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. – David Antin

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