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If the day was forty-eight hours, instead of twenty-four, I could employ them all, if I had but eyes and hands to read and write.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “If the day was forty-eight hours, instead of twenty-four, I could employ them all, if I had but eyes and hands to read…”
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Quincy illustrates his eagerness for knowledge by wishing for more hours in the day to read and write.
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