… than not; it is not best that you seem too learned.”[10] Douglass had too much self-respect, as well as too much … 4,500 copies between the months of May and September, and 30,000 copies in both Britain and America by 1850. Praised by … (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), xlvii. [10] Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), 282; …