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  "text": "Valleysmen'd not want to hear, she answered, that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too. I know it from other tribes offland what I stayed with. Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.",
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      "text": "I hear my father-in-law's response[...] \"Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!\"\n\nYet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?",
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      "text": "Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.",
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      "text": "Many xpert witnesses at. our trial denied Declarations could be the work of a fabricant, ascended or otherwise, and maintained it was ghosted by Union or a pureblood Abolitionst.\n\nHow lazily \"xperts\" dismiss what they fail to understand!",
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