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What I have said, I have said as to a brother sleeping on the brink of a precipice, where one motion of his troubled sleeping, or of his bewildered awaking, might plunge him into remediless ruin.
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Mann uses a metaphor to illustrate the precarious situation of those he addresses, likening them to a brother on the edge of danger.
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