"Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?"

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Source : Olaudah Equiano (1967). “Annotated The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa, The African with English Grammar Exercises: by Olaudah Equiano (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.34, Powell Publications, LLC

Olaudah Equiano

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“[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”

Source : The Observer, August 07, 1966.
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