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Listening to his voice, now so gentle and low, while he conversed on the duties of life, and with perfect simplicity revealed his own abnegation of worldly aims, I have been filled with reverence.
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Sumner describes a moment of reverence while listening to a person's humble reflections on life and personal sacrifice.
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