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the habits and prejudices of New England Puritanism were not well adapted to the genius of a tropical people, nor capable of being thoroughly ingrafted upon them.

— Liliʻuokalani Hawaii's Story (1898)

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The cause of Hawaiian independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. (Chapter XLVIII)

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