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  "text": "\"I am the most miserable person who ever lived\", he said to the Lord Primus, when they stopped to feed the horses feedbags of damp oats.\n\n\"You are young, and in love\", said Primus. \"Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived\".",
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      "text": "Tristran sat at the top of the spire of cloud and wondered why none of the heroes of the penny dreadfuls he used to read so avidly were ever hungry. His stomach rumbled, and his hand hurt him so.\n\nAdventures are all very well in their place, he thought, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.\n\nStill, he was alive, and the wind was in his hair, and the cloud was scudding through the sky like a galleon at full sail. Looking out over the world from above, he could never remember feeling so alive as he did at that moment. There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.\n\nHe understood that he was, in some way, above his problems, just as he was above the world.",
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      "text": "\"The little folk dare anything\", said his friend. \"And they talks a lot of nonsense. But they talks an awful lot of sense, as well. You listen to 'em at your peril, and you ignore 'em at your peril, too\".",
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