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James Branch Cabell

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It was not his to choose from what volume or on which page thereof he would read; accident, as it seemed, decided that; but the chance-opened page lay unblurred before him, and he saw it with a clarity denied to other men of his generation.
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Ch. 23 : Economic Considerations of Piety

 
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