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I'll break the spell or the science of her singing yet. As the only man left it devolves on me to do it.
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Roadstrum, not realizing he has become a small ape, in Ch. 6

 

R. A. Lafferty

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Never give up! it is wiser and better
Always to hope, than once to despair.
Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,
And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

 

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