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"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."
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"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"

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