… than not; it is not best that you seem too learned.”[10] Douglass had too much self-respect, as well as too much … sections to dine with sympathetic fellow passengers.[15] If the ship simmered, it did not come to a boil till the … (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), xlvii. [10] Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), 282; …