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his, I would beg you to return it to him, and find out for me where I can go
never to see him"
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sight for everything, from the study of philosophy and the Scriptures to the
tying of a shoestring, cannot seem to understand that hearing and touch may
with practice be made to serve nearly all purposes about as well, and some very
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