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There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness.
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p. 57

 

Henry S. Haskins

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They've been spending most their lives
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A moment guess'd — then back behind the Fold
Immerst of Darkness round the Drama roll'd
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He doth Himself contrive, enact, behold.

 

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