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I would as soon have thought of taking possession of the moon and informing my friends that I intended to divide it among them." To a man, his most intimate friends believed this statement to be true.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “I would as soon have thought of taking possession of the moon and informing my friends that I intended to divide it…”
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Beveridge uses a metaphor to express the impossibility of a certain task, illustrating the absurdity of the expectation placed upon him.
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