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This remark received {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}from all the company but me. I would not have ventured to talk in such a {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}strain, unless I examined the manners of these people with great care and accuracy to arrive at a more {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}judgment.
I reflected on the absurd and ridiculous nature of national prejudice and {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Rather than being a world citizen, we become so much the members of one {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}society. This prejudice {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}among most kinds of people and it is a gross {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}and delusion.