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quoth I , debating the matter with myself , “ that one - and - twenty miles ' sailing ( for ' tis absolutely no further from Dover to Calais ) should give a man these rights — I'll look into them : ” so , giving up the argument , I went ...
quoth I , debating the matter with myself , “ that one - and - twenty miles ' sailing ( for ' tis absolutely no further from Dover to Calais ) should give a man these rights — I'll look into them : ” so , giving up the argument , I went ...
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When man is at peace with man , how much lighter than a feather is the heaviest of metals in his hand ! He pulls out his purse , and , holding it airily and uncompressed , looks round him as if he sought for an object to share it with .
When man is at peace with man , how much lighter than a feather is the heaviest of metals in his hand ! He pulls out his purse , and , holding it airily and uncompressed , looks round him as if he sought for an object to share it with .
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... set myself a little more upon my centre , and advanced up gravely to him : there was something , I fear , forbidding in my look : I have his figure this moment before my eyes , and think there was that in it which deserved better .
... set myself a little more upon my centre , and advanced up gravely to him : there was something , I fear , forbidding in my look : I have his figure this moment before my eyes , and think there was that in it which deserved better .
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... of the wants of his convent , and the poverty of his order ; and did it with so simple a grace , and such an air of deprecation was there in the whole cast of his look and figure , I was bewitched not to have been struck with it .
... of the wants of his convent , and the poverty of his order ; and did it with so simple a grace , and such an air of deprecation was there in the whole cast of his look and figure , I was bewitched not to have been struck with it .
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many a time cost me , when I have observed how many a foul step the Inquisitive Traveller has measured to see sights , and look into discoveries ; all which , as Sancho Panza said to Don Quixote , they might have seen dryshod at home .
many a time cost me , when I have observed how many a foul step the Inquisitive Traveller has measured to see sights , and look into discoveries ; all which , as Sancho Panza said to Don Quixote , they might have seen dryshod at home .
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