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I knew something of books, nothing of men, and I went forth like Adam among the wild beasts of the unknown wilderness of the world.
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Creswell describes his naivety and inexperience as he faced the challenges of adulthood.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
We do not recognize the right to make a revolution by a vote.
He stood face to face with the iniquitous superstition, and to their teeth defied its worshipers.
He had collected the purest ore of truth and the richest gems of thought, until he was able to crown himself with knowledge.
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