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Ideas, illustrations, words, seemed to come unbidden and range in harmonious forms,--as in the walls of ancient Thebes each stone took its proper place of its own accord, moved only by the music of a lyre.
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Sumner illustrates the effortless flow of ideas in his speeches, comparing it to the harmonious construction of ancient Thebes.
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