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"Here's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a l…"
"If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory."
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